| Show 1 4 1 I oa of o a Nerv Newspaperman Time echoed the the oddity news about the soldier overseas who wh o I was hit by a shell shen fragment which h contained the number on his o own tag dog-tag The newspapers fell for it too a week earlier when a Canadian Press dispatch said a an n batman was named as th thone the theone theone e one it actually happened to in N Normandy Normandy Nor Nor- or- or mandy The report stated that tha t his name was George McMillan of Nova Scotia The number on th the e fragment was the the number o ohis on n his identity card The Herald Tribune carried it too a week after it published an article Aug In its magazine section titled Lucky Shot by Gen Pattons Patton's wife She said it happened in the last war Lou Holtz and some some others were reminiscing about and how the showman master-showman always had class even when he couldn't afford it There was the time when was in Hollywood after after after aft aft- er squandering another fortune on a failure in New York He wired his old friend Ed Wynn I know I owe you it said but I need desperately Will you help me out again Wynn Vynn instructed his bankers to rush the feld used it to return to N. N Y Y in ina ina ina a private Pullman Max Herzberg who collected a of Anecdotes which he christened christened christened chris chris- Insults considers this his favorite Once Disraeli and Gladstone collided verbally in the House and as Gladstone came out after adjournment he was still shaking shaking shaking shak shak- ing with rage He glimpsed Disraeli chatting with other members members members mem mem- bers and he shouted Sir you will come to ta your end either on the gallows gallows gallows gal gal- lows or by some terrible plague Disraeli adjusted his monocle and softly intoned I should say Mr Gladstone that depends upon whether whether er er I embrace your principles or your mistress The Men G follow through on every every every ev ev- ery tip of course You never can tell Several of them were assigned to a real hot one last week A woman reported the informant informant informant inform inform- ant had many signs in her bathroom reading Good morning Mein Fuehrer Heil Hitler and What have you done today t to improve improve improve im im- prove the Master Race FBI agents disguised as plumbers investigated in investigated investigated in- in and confirmed the tip You bet I put them up she boasted But Im I'm not a Nazi It took hours before they broke her down She was fed up with her husbands husband's dictatorial attitude and he had stopped speaking to her She hoped to insult him by comparing comparing comparing com com- paring him with Hitler Add capsule criticisms that will live Jive Don Herold's The dogs in Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin are poorly supported supported sup sup- supported ported by the cast Robert Benchley Perfectly Scandalous Scandalous' was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated enunciated enunciated very clearly Anon The trouble with Katharine Hepburn Hepburn Hep Hep- burn in The Lake is that she didn't throw herself into it enough Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Magazines Newsweek's good word Its drama critic describing describing describing de- de scribing a singer portraying a hammy hammy hammy ham- ham my actress wrote She plays therole the therole therole role of a Mae prima donna The same mag reminds reminds reminds re re- minds Russian that the Soviet Soviet So So- viet casualties are almost five times greater than the U. U S. S and British combined Seventeen a new mag for the miss junior-miss set has a refreshing slant Earl Wilson is represented in Everybody's Digest Digest Digest Di Di- gest a mag with zing Pic rolls out the silver lining for scientists who insist civilization can attain Utopia Meanwhile well we'll be content with the closest thing to it it Amen Ameri ca American Mercury's circulation circulation circulation lation is climbing steadily and for good reason It makes sense John Roy Carlson the Under Cover Cover Cover Cov Cov- er er author does another excellent job in The Woman magazine In Ina Inn a n few weeks the same mag offers his Daughters of Dissension and Defeat Defeat Defeat De De- feat which undresses the various phony Mother Patriotic Clubs Navy Secy Forrestal got a huge howl at the Waldorf dinner in his honor with this There are two wars We are winning the first one and we are going to win the second I But there are too many experts I That reminds me of the expert engineer engineer engineer en en- who knew what it was all about You know what an expert is Hes He's a mechanic away from home Capt J. J Farra 51 has bas been in the Army 35 years He was asked to fill out another questionnaire The first question was Civilian occupation Occupation occupation tion To which Farrar jotted down Child In Indianapolis a man was nabbed climbing over the wall of the Indiana women's prison The police learned he was the prison engineer and had forgotten his keys A certain prima donna complained complained complained com com- to a newspaper man that she was getting nervous and irritable and just didn't want ant to see people Give a concert he suggested ted |
