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Show Private Papers of a Cub Reporter: Thornton Wilder was recently recalling re-calling his last visit to London . . . After a luncheon at Barrie's flat, the exquisite little genius, Max Beerbohm, said: "Mr. Wilder, you haven't remarked on the view of the Thames from here" . . . Wilder replied to the general ertect that nothing adequate had occurred to him . . . Whereupon Beerbohm said: "People usually do, you know. Only last week, for instance, Mr. Gene Tunney, the fighter, was here and admired it tremendously. As a matter of fact, he spoke of it with such eloquence and such sensitiveness sensitive-ness that, really, I felt quite coarse." The FBI Is more interested in a prominent Chicago psychiatrist, who obtained an appointment to The Morale Board of the Col. Donovan Oflice .. . . This doctor, a Hungarian Hungari-an who recently became a citizen, was given a routine check by the G-Men . . . When an agent called at his home, he spotted a large framed portrait of Mussolini, affectionately affec-tionately inscribed . . . That made it more than a routine investigation and led to the fact that Fritz Hor-vath, Hor-vath, Hungarian Nazi leader, is a frequent guest at the Dr's house . . . And at conferences in a hideaway hide-away in Chicago . . . Horvath has definite Berlin connections and the doctor may learn for the first time that he is not going to be accepted for that swell job with Col. Donovan. The Women's Business and Professional Pro-fessional Group annual Friendship Dinner took place the other night . . . They had previously announced that they would make known at this dinner the ten big, important worn- en chosen to represent the U. S. . . . To inspect civilian defense in England Eng-land . . . The list was prepared and sent to Mrs. Roosevelt for her okay . . . The names submitted did not measure up to her requirements, require-ments, and dissension grew to such a pitch that the idea has been temporarily tem-porarily deferred and possibly shelved. A vet Broadwayite recalls when Chinatown was big news every night . , . And how an assistant district attorney was phoned out of a sound slumber one wee hour with the news of a massacre in a Chinatown dive . . . When he got there, still fastening fasten-ing his clothes, he found the joint deep in blood, and bodies on the floor the hajhrts and knives still in 'em . . . The 37rtender was moaning moan-ing and weeping noisily . . . "What happened?" the d. a. shouted. "What happened?" was the reply, as the tears dangled from his mustache. mus-tache. "Every customer ran out without paying his check!" Notes of an Innocent Bystander : The Networkers: Dinah Shore sings the blues on her new solo Sunday Sun-day spot and relieves you of yours . . . Frank Black's classic renditions rendi-tions via NBC's "American Melody Hour" are something to hug . . . Take big-time talents like Paul Muni, Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, mix with a top-notch script, and you have that Red Cross program good as the cause . . . Betty Hutton is a zippy person, welcome to the Bob Hope bill. He said "vitamin pills take her!" . . . You don't wonder, hearing hear-ing Richard Crooks sing, why he is with the Met but you wonder why James Melton, who precedes him on the same station, isn't . . . Everybody Every-body was that surprised when the N. Y. Times succumbed to radio. It is only adding a voice to the ribbon that unwinds the flashes around the Times Bldg. The gtory Tellers: C. V. R. Thompson is selling his favorite old story again Cafe Society this time to Click. Amazing how interesting Thompson can make them seem in print. In reality they are as dull as a blank wall . . . "How to Be Cole Porter" is the caption of a Look article about the composer. It's good advice if you happen to be Porter, but late even for him . . . Movie-Radio-Guide starts a two-instalment expose on this column's favorite news commentator in the current issue . . . The fallacy that the Middle West is isolationist is exploded by Time, which points out that polls have proved otherwise. "The so-called isolationist Midwest." It says in part, "exists only in the minds of congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent re-cent months" . . . Some people, it seems, mistake the Chicago Tribune for the mid-West The Press Box: Another correspondent corre-spondent with a good book is Raymond Ray-mond Daniel "Civilians Must Fight." Daniel, who covered the London raids, reports a failure to chase his office boy to cover when the bombers came. The kid squawked the underground hideouts were too risky. The last time he went down, he lost 510 playing cards . . . Somerset Maugham, in a foreword fore-word to the Daniell volume, explains news censors as "more anxious not to do the w-ror.g thir.g th.-.n to do the risht one." |