Show 0 P f I 1 BROADWAY BYSTANDER the story tellers arturo bocchini head of italis secret police owed his job to old baldys yellow streak according to philippe haren court in the living age benito played clay pigeon to a few malcontents and he had enough so he had the towns policed before he showed his knob among his beloved subjects frederick lonsdale assures young playwrights in stage that lots of times an idea comes to you after you have resigned yourself never to have another or as mr L used to do so profitably you ca can ailys always repeat an old one the medical books a cont ribber to you reveals list causes of headache you can relieve the worst one by failing to tune in on ben bernie the front pages the ratzi rags denied the beat NANA scored on the speech of richard walther darre agriculture ri minister quoted as saying the world would be nazi slaves when the war ends at the same time dispatches sneaked through telling of forced labor in poland and among french prisoner of war A barbarian tells on himself france was readied for its fall in 1935 johannes steel reports in the book eyewitness that year the fascists corrupted the french press francs worth in order to train its armies in ethiopia laval permitting dorothy thompson all the H trib staff duels now you notice walter lippmann taking a wisp of a wallop at mark sullivan his page mate for ifor finding the labor party under his bed the bolo press is needling hitler into hopping in to give benito a lift in greece the reds cant be reading the muni ques of the italian high command they are masterpieces of ad silver lining evasion typewriter ribbons ellen glas bows the only difference between a rut and a grave is in their dimensions mayor LaGuar La Guardias dials it makes no difference if I 1 burn my bridges behind me since I 1 never retreat H Wal poles the world is is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel lewis milestones farce is a tricky thing its a bubble you try to keep in the air and if ff youre not careful it becomes a medicine ball A childs definition A smile is the whisper of a laugh robert quillens violent exercise is like a cold bath you think it does you good because you feel better when you stop it aanons he had a habit of spilling his words into your yawns J mahlers some people spend so much time preparing for rainy days they dont enjoy the sunny ones benjamin franklins doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one makes you even with him forgiving it sets you above him A toast never above you never beneath you always beside you CUB REPORTERS NOTES general metaxas Alet axas the leader of the amazing greeks is absentminded absent minded one of the anecdotes about him deals with the time he was piloting a seaplane all went well until the commander commande of the ship noticed they were gliding toward an aerodrome excuse me general metaxas said the commander but it would be better to come down on the sea this is a seaplane of course said metaxas what was I 1 thinking about so saying he turned and landed safely on the water and then said commander I 1 thank you heartily I 1 shall not forget the tact with which you drew my attention to the blunder I 1 was about to make metaxas then turned opened the door and stepped into the ocean neywood heywood brouns favorite story about war correspondent alexana alexander er was told him by william mcnutt all heu hell had broken loose one cold night on the west western ern front As mcnutt was taking cover he joined and another reporter who were sitting on the ground where alex had spread a shawl he always carried for just such things suddenly a shell exploded not far from where they were all sprawled they were scared stiff but not who indifferently remarked d to me maude adams as peter pan was 9 gay ay and spirited and altogether charming as the silver star on top of the tree of christmas morning the newsboy who peddles his papers near the roney plaza has a daily laugh provoker yesterday he kept yelling mussolini creates a new war dance 1 one step forward and two steps back dorothy thompson was telling of a ruse she once used to get rid of a bore he came over to her table in the stork club one night and started telling her how to write her next ten collums ill never remember anything you are saying she interrupted why he asked is your memory that bad I 1 its it terrible replied la thompson in fact my demor memory y is so 0 bad I 1 dont even remember having asked you to sit at this tablet |