Show r S I I Votes Notes of a New Yorker The New York papers recently offered offered of of- ered an article by Gypsy Rose Lees Lee's nother other The story w was s about Gypsy Gyp- Gyp jy sy y New are familiar with the silly quarrel between these wo Supposed to h have ve started when Nhen Gypsy wrote articles for a magazine about her early career in which her mater was kidded a lot nd md unfrocked a little UttIe Broad- Broad later heard buzzing about bout mother nother and daughter getting to the point of name Once Gypsy received a telegram Irom her Mom which warned that the two could get together about a certain matter she the she the mother would mother would give the stor story to the newspapers Look Mom dont don't be a fool replied re re- replied re- re plied Gypsy dont give it to the papers Sell it to them Now is probably the last time to recount this instance of the h humor hilmor- mor morus Us play by-play that went on between and Henry Wallace When Mae West Vest was suing Frank Wallace for I the papers were full of stories stones sto sto- stoies sto- sto nes ries headed Mae West Charges Walace Wai- Wai ace ace Unkind to Her The President one out and sent it to the vice nee president with a note in his wn handwriting reading Henry Is ts this the way to treat your wom worn women I en tn I Ernie Pyle Py reported the incident f captured Nazi General von SchUe- SchUe aen sen en who squawked to Yank com corn commanders commanders manders about American photographers hers taking his picture without ask- ask ng mg permission And how Gentral General General Gen Gen- eral Collins reminded Von Schlieben S that in the United States there is a alree aree afree free ree press and we in the army cannot annot stop our newspapers from printing the news s and taking pic pie aIres tures In Time or L Life e a few edi- edi ions ago we read what the photographer photographer photographer said when Von Schlieben Oh I am bored with you American photographers taking my picture The American hocus-focus hocus man who understood German mapped back And Im I'm bored tak tak- ing pictures of captured Nazi gen gen- This is the newest Russian gag at the Madison Bar Sovan Sovan So Sovan van Ivanovitch died gallantly in the midst of battle sobbed Katerina You say jay he uttered my name with his last breath Part of it replied the returned only part of it An ironic fact is that George M. M Cohan ohan never could scribble a successful successful suc sue S ditty about baseball the sport ne he loved so much Cohan as all aU Broadway knew was a Polo Grounds faithful Yet the two songs he wrote about baseball were never performed performed per per- formed more than a few tired times even with John McGraw and the Giants lending themselves to its pro pro- motion Yet Albert Von Tilzer's Take Me Out to the Ball BalI Game Is as famous as the game itself and andS S Von Tilzer saw his first ba baseball conlest conLest contest con con- lest test only a short while back after bis his tune had been played and sung for lor decades Take Me etc was not the first baseball song ever written In 1885 i L ballplayer named Kelly was an idol up in Boston A faithful fan scribbled a ditty tagged Slide Kelly Slide rhe The word three-word phrase became more popular than the song A song was responsible for finishIng finishIng finish- finish Ing ng a baseball stars star's promising career career career ca ca- ca- ca reer when it looked as though he might develop into another Hubbell or r Walter Johnson His name was Harry larry Covaleskie and he was with the Phillies One season he established himself by pitching against the Giants three limes times in five days beating them in all starts and taking a pennant I right from under their noses The Giants burned up found out later that Covaleskie as a kid had trouped in amateur vaudeville singIng singIng sing- sing Ing Lag Silver Threads Among the Gold One afternoon the following summer summer sum sum- sumner mer ner Covaleskie was hurling against the Giants when from their out dug-out ame the strains of pf Silver Threads The Giants kept this this' up all during that series and other National Na Na- National League clubs followed with the same ribbing In six weeks Covaleskie Covaleskie Covaleskie Co Co- Co- Co was a nervous wreck rhe The following year saw him fade from Crom baseball completely Despite the warnings against unnecessary travel vaca vaca- lion tion travel is up 10 per cent Apparently Apparently Ap Ap- Ap- Ap there are people who wont won't do anything to help win the war- war even if it means staying home and doing nothing A certain New York State Senator after a nervous breakdown and a holiday in a sanitarium was pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- dooly He returned returned re re- re- re turned to the Senate at Albany where he engaged in a hot debate the first day During the debate one of his opponents opponents opponents forgetting the mans man's illness lost his temper and yelled Youre crazy razy Pulling out his discharge certificate ate cate Our Hero Hezo waved it and said I can prove Im I'm sane sane now now can iou fOU S i I bo S |