Show I pf I I t. t Lint From a Blue Billa Serge Serga Suit Suit- Just before the war var Jan nfl lin in the eminent Pol Polish sh pianist wason was wason wason on a world concert tour and at one point visited on the island island is is- land of Majorca which was the Ule place where Chopin lived lin visited the monastery which was Chopin's home and has since been turned into a private residence hoping to see the piano on which Chopin played He was told that the piano was now the property of a private family in Palma located that family and as he stood in rapt awe looking at this box which was the instrument of the great Polish immortal the man of the house said Surely Mr Smet- Smet erlin youre you're going to play on it replied reverently I. I Oh Oh I I wouldn't think of touching i it I To which his host said Oh nonsense nony non non- sense sense sense-my my y children bang on it aUthe all aU the time J Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black is a fiend for lyonnaise pota pota- toes A new waitress at his favorite favorite favorite favor favor- ite restaurant brought him french fries in error and told him she i couldn't change the order A Washington reporter seated near nearby nearby nearby by asked her if she knew the patron was a United States high court judge Unimpressed she refused to change the order explaining How often do they change their decisions decisions decisions de de- Weve We've only used it twice before but every time some contributor offers it we get th the giggles and have to print it all over again Its It's about Mr and his year old son f They were strolling in the park and the boy kept asking asking asking ask ask- ing all sorts of questions It was g getting on Poppa persisted wot kind flowers flowers' is doze How w should I know exploded Am ClAm I in the millinery James Gordon Bennett who used to own the N. N Y Herald Herad had a alist alist list of for reporters that was as long as the memory of a radio radio radio ra ra- ra- ra dio comedian Every once in a awhile awhile awhile while though the boys made him take one back Dont use patron or guest in referring to a paying customer at al a hotel one rule went because you are using the word incorrectly The rule was changed when the boys on the rewrite desk searching for other words started to refer to persons who registered at hotels as inmates New l' l Yorkers Yorkers' Notebook The English are giggling over the cooks cook's dog at an field The canine dashed down the runway runway runway run run- way in pursuit of a plane taking off Does your dog always do that a new officer asked The cook said yep YaP Why CI the officer wanted to know I dont don't know sir replied the dogs dog's owner But what worries me meis meis meis is what hes he's going to do with it when he catches a plane Ivor Newton the London pianist heard a Cockney give this explanation tion of his own courage regarding the robot bombings I see it like this It must take the Germans a lot Jot lotof lotof of trouble to make the bloody things and then they have to get them into those pits and up in the air and it is quite a long way from France to London and if they do get to London London London Lon Lon- don they still have to find Limehouse Limehouse Limehouse Lime- Lime house and even then it isn't everyone everyone everyone every every- one who can find 37 Bulstrode road where I live and if they do its it's 10 to 1 that I would be down the corner in 4 the Pub At the home of mutual friends after the funeral of the ilie Archbishop of Canterbury Winston Churchill who was touched by the prelates prelate's passing said Once again the nation nation na na- na tion has lost a great geat churchman and a great Englishman Then in an aside Mr Churchill who credits credits cred credo its his 70 years to having a drink now and then added CI And once again one of my good friends hasmet has hasmet hasmet met the untimely end of a complete teetotaler Story of the Week The newest General Patton legend according to returned just-returned correspondents When the Germans cold murdered Gen Maurice Rose Patton Patton Pat Pat- ton was strangely silent for a long time Then he reached slowly into his jacket pocket from which he removed a German-English German diction diction- ary f And crossed out the wor word d mercy j i The Thc other night Prof Leo Reis Reis- man relayed the one about th the e trainee at a naval radio training g center in Georgia His station was wa gs s the radio tower He became becam worried when he couldn't account t for an incoming fleet of planes H He e flashed X Radio Tower callin calling eg g Pilot Jones Been messaging yo you u but got no answer If you hear hearme me wings Shortly came the reply Pilot Pilo I Jones calling X Radio Tower I landed two hours ago l If you hear tea hearme hearme r me tower I |