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Show 11 g -li -',,'-.",'-"L..J:....j Man About Town: Secretary of State Cordell Hull has recovered sufficiently from a threatened collapse. He will resume re-sume the burden of his ofllce and the wurld soon . . . Mrs. FDR'i new radio sponsor may be Brazil at $2,000 a broadcast . . . Hitler's squawk that an American ship is arriving daily in Alexandria is a lie. It's two ships! . . . Insiders argue that Columnist Joe Alsop was sent to Bombay, India, presumably because be-cause there is no greater distance from Washington. Alsop embarrassed embar-rassed the White House and the navy by stating in print that his kin, the President, was waiting for an incident to get us into war just before he got his naval commission. Carol and Lupescu are concerned about their reception here. Why? They got a most cordial press on their arrival to this hemisphere . . . Hess is supposed to have said that he (led because the stars by which Hitler lives "deserted him after May 12th" . . . Our submarine detectors de-tectors have been perfected to the point where surface craft can now signal: "Come up for identification or be sunk!" . . . There are models of cargo vessels being tried out in Long Island sound, which are Mr. Hitler's newest headache. For practical purposes these ships are as far out of the water as the subs are under it. Exclusive! Jap subs, manned by German crews, are waiting in the narrow straits of Vladivostok to sink American supplies to Russia ... A great number of German-American German-American Bunders will have their citizenship revoked shortly thanks to the splendid work of the Immigration Immi-gration Service via Sylvester Pin-dyck's Pin-dyck's ofnce. The Democratic brain trust figures fig-ures that either Farley or O'Dwyer can lick any G.O.P. candidate for Mayor of New York. Some believe Farley will race against Dewey for Governor, but it may be Farley vs. Willkie. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Magic Carpet: Ralph Ingersoll, the publisher, now on his way to Russia (to interview Stalin) was complaining to Steve Early at the White House the other day. "Steve," Ingersoll intoned, "those Russians are holding my passport." "They are?" responded Steve. "And they want us to give them a r hundred million, dollars worth of machinery!" Steve then called the State Dep't and, before Ingersoll knew it, he was on his way to Moscow. Eyebrow Lifter: Mr. Ingersoll was saying before he left that he had just learned the hardest thing to find in Russia was a Communist. "How's that?" he was asked. "Because," he explained, "the population of Russia is 160,000,000, and there are only 5,000,000 party members." Despite the rigid censorship In Germany, the underground manages to circulate the latest news picked up via short-wave from England and America. When they want to discuss dis-cuss in public what they heard on BBC, the favorite method is to say, "Do you know what I dreamed?" and then proceed to relay the news picked up on the foreign station . . . Another popular method is to tell about a speech heard on the Nazi station and praise it and then add how a foreign station cut in with a "lot of lies." The speaker repeats the "lies" he heard, and his listeners listen-ers get the drift . . . Since meetings are verboten in Germany, the anti-Nazis anti-Nazis have become great funeral-goers. funeral-goers. When a funeral is announced, a mob shows up at the cemetery and, as they walk behind the hearse, they trade information. Add Picturesque Reporting: The best description of the Russianazi tangle, with both sides out-bragging the other in their communiques, is the New York Times' Edwin L. James' phrase: "The war of the typewriters." By Way of Report: They are going go-ing to film the life of Lou Gehrig, which certainly was a life to admire. ad-mire. There is plenty of drama in the career of another ball player. After he had been great for two decades, dec-ades, he faded. But the baseball mighties put a bust of him in the Hall of Fame. His bust had a home, but he had none. Grover Cleveland Alexander. Cartoon Material: A Nazi spy overhears a conversation between two of Secretary Hull's aides and gleefully sends the punchline to his decoding office, to wit: "Awful news, but awful! I just drew the Washington Senators in the $10 pool!" You've Met 'Em: It's Paul Hart-man's Hart-man's tale of the three efficiency experts ex-perts who were waiting impatiently in front of a hotel for a friend so they could make it a foursome going go-ing through the revolving door. |