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Show HPS .-i NoIps oj a Newspaper Man: This, they tell you, happened at the Big 3 conference. . . . One evening eve-ning after dinner Roosevelt, Churchill Church-ill and Stalin started speculating on what nationality they'd prefer to be If they couldn't be their own. . . . Churchill said: "If I couldn't be British I'd want to be American." . . . Roosevelt said: "If I wasn't American, I'd be British." . . . Stalin said: "If I wasn't Russian I'd be ashamed of myself!" During the recent run of the Theater Thea-ter Guild's "Embezzled Heaven," the star, Ethel Barrymore, was rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. pneu-monia. She was placed in an oxygen oxy-gen tent. . . . President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were among the many who sent posies and telegrams, tele-grams, and for a few weeks everyone every-one despaired of her pulling through. . . . Finally, the worst was over and the star was permitted to sit up in bed and answer the phone. . . . The first caller was the Guild's Theresa Helburn. "Hello," she cheerily said, "how's your cold?" The other night a Hungarian playwright play-wright was told an actor had arrived from Hungary. . . . "Do you know him?" he was asked. "Know him?" was the retort. "He's my best friend. I hate him!" Our recent paragraphs about misplaced commas brought the one about the London Daily Mail, which has a reputation for making mak-ing fewest errors. . . . All sorts of editorial supervision was employed em-ployed bonuses were offered the staff to maintain the highest standards, etc. But the Mail was still less than perfect. Finally, the editor summoned the staff and .announced: "Hereafter, "Here-after, the first copy will be printed print-ed on special stock and sent to the King of England." Editorial blunders dropped 90 per cent. A Texan in London was trying to impress some Britishers with the size of his home state. "Do you know," he said, "that in Texas you can hop on a railroad car at 8 in the morning and still be in Texas after riding 24 hours?" "We," replied a Britisher, "have trains like that In England, too." It happened at the premiere of "One Man Show." . . . The curtain was up and a woman was making a big to-do as she got into her seat, huffing and puffing. . . . Seated near her was George Luddy, the Indian-born Indian-born author. ... He polished her off neatly by audibly remarking: "Don't worry about her. She's so used to the second balcony that sitting in the orchestra tonight has given her the shakes." The exciting stories from Manila Ma-nila included the one about an American radio reporter who was freed after three years as a Jap prisoner. He was forced off the air one day as the Japs entered the city. The other morning, said the papers, he resumed re-sumed broadcasting this way: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted " De Valera of Eire was arrested arrest-ed while speaking at a street meeting several years ago. When he was freed years later, his first statement was: "As I was saying when I was so rudely rude-ly interrupted " Margalo Gillmore, the actress, 'was anxious to become a nurse's ' aide but found she didn't have enough stamina for the work being frightened by the sight of blood, etc. ;3o she compromised by becoming a 3rey Lady (one who reads to the convalescent servicemen, etc.) . . . Vlargalo was telling Carolyn Burke ibout her duties. . . . "Just what is i Grey Lady?" asked Carolyn. . . . 1 'A Grey Lady in my case," said 'vlargalo, "is a yellow nurse's aide." i . There was the time the late Alex Voollcott was the victim of a type-etter's type-etter's error. . . . The critic once ief erred to a famous recitalist as I a popular dieuse." It came out: "Popular disease." . When critic Rascoe covered the ew play. "Hope for the Best," he as no little flattered that the prin-pal prin-pal comedy line (used intermit-ntly intermit-ntly throughout the three acts) was mething he wrote many years ago. was: "Something no wife can ever iderstand, no matter if she lives . ith the man for 25 years, is that 1 writer is working when he is star-g star-g out of the window." i ( A group of newspapermen were fibbing about the current college Sries the basketball scandal and ' race discrimination report on 'Vital colleges. One of the scribes 1 d: "No matter what kind of a ; liege yarn I write. I never have worry about my punch-line." . . . (owcum?" asked a chronic-how- cner. , "I just write." said the first news-oer news-oer man. " 'Nicholas Murray But-jl But-jl President of Columbia Univer-, Univer-, V, could not be reached for com- lnt-' " i i I 1 I |