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Show The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: A visiting movie star was asked which man she would enjoy meeting most ... To the amazement of the interviewers, she said: "Albert Einstein" Ein-stein" . . . The noted scientist was lecturing in Manhattan and he agreed to see her . . . With the scribes scribing and the flashlight bulbs bulbing, the star in an awed voice said, "It's a thrill to think that I am talking to the one man who knows more about the stars than any other living person." "Not quite," replied Einstein. "No one can predict what a star will do to get her name in the papers." They tell the one about the colonel, colo-nel, speaking at a dinner in his honor hon-or before embarking for Africa . . . "I thank you," he concluded, "for your kind wishes regarding my welfare, wel-fare, and I want you to know that when I am far away, surrounded by ugly, grinning savages, I shall always al-ways think of you." Jackie Coogan, recently back lrom paratrooping in Burma and India, In-dia, said his Burma Glider group landed near a small tribal village 150 miles back of the Jap lines . . . Having the assignment to construct an airport in less than 12 hours, Coogan called over a Thugee ' (native (na-tive chief) and asked that he parade the villagers that he wished to recruit re-cruit as workers. Hundreds of them were girls wearing very little. One, however, was better groomed than the others . . . Draped to her ankles was a huge towel with the words: "Mayflower "May-flower Hotel, Washington, D. C." At an airport the other day, a dejected de-jected sailor sat waiting for hours. He appeared so depressed a sympathetic sym-pathetic bystander asked him what the trouble was ... He said he had just come in from the South Pacific Pa-cific for a four-day furlough. His home was an hour and a half away by air ... He had just been put off one plane in favor of a higher priority pri-ority ... He hadn't been home in two years. His father had died in the meantime, and every hour now seemed an eternity . . . But what really got him down, he added, was that two planes had left for his home burg but couldn't find room for him despite the fact that the last person per-son to board the plane was a civilian earrying a golf bag! t When Norway was Invaded civil-Ian civil-Ian Germans fled Sweden because they expected that country to be invaded next ... A German who had been buying up dollars at half the price took a train one night from Stockholm. His suitcase contained about one million dollars in small and large bills ... He knew he could not get by Swedish customs with it, and that even if he did, the Gestapo would catch up with him In Germany . . . Not long after midnight mid-night the train stopped at a small station. The German hurried out with his valise, found a dark spot near a tree, buried his treasure, took careful note of the spot and boarded the train . . . Thru his window he made a note of a sign on a door (on the side of the depot) ... It said KVINNOR ... A few weeks ago he got permission to return re-turn to Sweden. At the station he showed the ticket seller the memo Df the name he had copied down. The ticket seller's eyebrows jumped high and then he grinned . . . KVINNOR in Swedish means WOMEN WOM-EN . . . The frantic dope is now traveling all over central Sweden at night, hoping to find the right depot, not knowing that even if he is that lucky, the Swedish authorities authori-ties are waiting for him. This is how Russia whipped its Black Market ... In Russia the soldiers get additional pay for each battle they are in, and not having anywhere to spend it, they send it home. The kinfolh are making more money than usual (in spite of what you hear), and all this is why Russia Rus-sia now has too much surplus coin, as well as a Black Market which gets 40 rubles for nylons and 50 for a bottle of Scotch . . . The Soviet gov't, being realistic about it, decided de-cided to go into the Black Market racket, so now they have gov't-ewned gov't-ewned stores in all communities . . . They are called: "Government-Owned "Government-Owned Black Market Stores" (or whatever the Russian is for that), and any citizen can shop in them ... In this way, the gov't gets back all that surplus money . . . And keeps the citizens honest at the same time . . . Over here surplus sur-plus money is being enjoyed only by the "mobs," who keep it ail since they rarely pay taxes. Marine 1st Lieut. Mitchell Paige (just returned after 26 months in the S. Pacific), one of two living enlisted en-listed Marines in this war to hold the Congressional-Medal of Honor, has the unique distinction of being the only infantryman in this war to be grounded! . . . Wearied by the comparative "inactivity" of a forward for-ward training camp in New Guinea (following the Guadalcanal campaign), cam-paign), Paige "stole" a ride on a B-25 scheduled to bomb Rabaul . . . The hero was then "grounded" for the duration. |