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Show a Man Ahtmt Town: Alter his conviction in Brooklyn Federal Court, Gestapo agent Carl Rcuper 'one of the 14 convicted Nazi agents) grunted: "We will be rescued res-cued soon by the German army when they take over." The FBI is now accepting applications applica-tions from lawyers and expert accountants ac-countants (between the ages of 23 and 35) to enlarge its field of G-men. G-men. Must be physically fit and ready for duty anywhere. Apply by mail to J. Edgar Hoover, the Department De-partment of Justice, Washington, D- C- Romo Vincent, who weighs 265, told pals at LaMartinique the other night that he was thinking of joining the navy. "As what?" taunted a wag, "an anchor?" j Cornelius Vandcrbilt Jr. has been called to the colors ... He is specially spe-cially assigned with the army and is down in the Pacific area. Van-derbilt Van-derbilt was a private with the AEF and was gassed. He is a Major in Army Intelligence. One of New York's more famous playboys was paying his estranged wife $1,000 weekly not to divorce him so he could beat the draft I She agreed while he paid . . . Last week he stopped paying and enlisted. en-listed. Tommy Manville met an old school chum and his wife strolling along 5th Avenue. Tommy greeted him with: "I'm very glad to see you again and is this your most charming wife?" The friend glared, and then, in his most sarcastic tones, squelched: "This is my ONLY wife!" There'll be no attempt to curtail the sale or manufacture of hooch in the U. S. because of the war. Representatives Rep-resentatives in the liquor industry were so assured by Washington . . . Don't rate the Doris Duke Crom-well-Errol Flynn romantics as another an-other cafe society silly . . . Hundreds Hun-dreds of New York newspaper men have been assigned locations to cover cov-er in the event of air raids. Here is an amazing story . . . The aunt of one of New York's better known girls recently died in California Cali-fornia r-.'i'The body -was shipped East . . .' The family thought they would like to take a last look and had the coffin opened . . . Instead of seeing auntie, they saw an old General in full uniform . . . Frantically, Franti-cally, they telephoned the War Dep't . . . After much delay they were informed there had been a mistake and that the General's body would be picked up. Auntie, it seems, had been buried ,at Arlington with full military honors. The Story Tellers: In Reader's Digest, Di-gest, Lieut. Comdr. Gene Tunney burns up about the harm nicotine can do . . . We knew somebody would start a spirited campaign against smoking as soon as someone perfected a lighter that works . . . Life was right on the nose with its piece on General Douglas MacAr-thur MacAr-thur by Clare Boothe. Very interesting inter-esting biogging . . . Stag is a new mag with a promising future. Many of your old favorites are contributors contribu-tors . . . Raymond Gram Swing's article, "Beware the Palace Revolution," Revo-lution," is a tipoff on how the Nazis intend to stay in power even when they lose the war . . . Jim Tully's "Man Without Arms" has already been selected for inclusion in the next O'Brien anthology . . . Maj. George Fielding Eliot is to be Look's military expert ... In Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Host, drama editor I. Cahn, in reviewing the new hit, "Angel Street," remarked: "The author didn't shoot the audience's emotions until he saw the whites of their knuckles." The Front Pages: The Times dug up a reminder that Japan has always al-ways specialized in sneak tactics. The Japs "mugged" Russia in 1904, just like Pearl Harbor . . ; Dorothy Thompson isn't one to be fooled by the first patriotic squeals of some of the mischief-makers, and pointed out: "Germany wants to continue to use her fifth column in the U. S., and they will all begin yelling now that we take away our interests from Europe and fight our own war" ... It is laughable to note that some of the people who weren't worried wor-ried about the safety of the flag-are flag-are now trying to hide behind it The reason they refuse to eat then-words then-words is that they know they're poisonous. poi-sonous. Jerry Lewis from H'wood reports: "Aside from the war stuff, everything every-thing here is as quiet as the cash register in a Suki-Yaki joint." Peggy Joyce tells her chums that she will marry again. She won't tell his came. He is said to be an executive execu-tive of Lloyd's. London. From "Trial by Fury," Craig Rice's murder novel: "Her voice didn't have a lisp but her wide eyes did" . . . You kr.inv, flathing eyeui." |