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Show Il'flffn? Eli S Neiv 1 orkers Are Talking About: The 1,000 (4-engine) long-range bombers that the United States will turn out monthly in 1942 . . . Publisher Pub-lisher Pope of an Italian-American daily being the first ever to edit a Presidential speech. Omitted the raps at the Axis. The closing of Camp Nordland, a Bund racket, in New Jersey by the man who sent Hauptmann to the chair (Attorney-General Wilentz.) It's about time! . . . The Book-of-the-Month club's August choice, A. J. Cronin's "The Keys of the Kingdom" King-dom" . . . The fact that the Zam-zam Zam-zam was partly "insured" by a syndicate syn-dicate of which the Tokio Fire & Marine and the Generale of Trieste, as well as Swiss insurance firms owned by Germany, are members . . . This confirms our recent report re-port on how Nazi Intelligence can know when U. S. ships sail their destinations, cargoes, etc! Notes of an Innocent Bystander: In Case You Didden Know: A pet newspaper man legend is this one. "A newspaper man is a guy who sits at his window looking down at the passing parade. Sooner or later lat-er everybody he knows passes by. And he can drop a flower or a flower flow-er pot!" It Really Happened! A small time actor walked into a bookshop and asked to see some books on the theater thea-ter for his wife. The clerk brought out the memoirs of Daniel Froh-man, Froh-man, Stanislawski's "An Actor Prepares" Pre-pares" and others. "Sorry," the customer said, "these won't do. Too thick." "Too thick?" said the clerk, "I'm sure she'll find them interesting." "She's not gonna read them," the guy explained, "she's gotta juggle some plates while balancing some books on her head!" Sweet and Lovely: Tito Guizar tells about Mrs. Mefoofsky who was saying ta-ta to her drafted darling. "Be a good boy, Sam," she cautioned, cau-tioned, "and when you get to camp try to be punctual in the mornings, morn-ings, so you don't keep breakfast waiting." Last Laugh: In the Spanish American Amer-ican war days the Hearst papers were putting out a dozen extras daily many of them scoops. But as quickly as they came but the old Morning World, the legend goes, would copy them. This got Mr. Hearst sore, but how to trap them in the act? One day the following appeared in the Hearst papers: "Colonel Reflipe W. Thenuz, a prominent Austrian military strat-' strat-' egist, has reached Cuba and will advise ad-vise and direct Spanish militarists on the war." The copy-cats on the World swallowed swal-lowed the bait and had it on their front page the next edition. The next afternoon the Hearst papers ran a facsimile of the swipe and then added: "Reflipe W. Thenuz, if you read it as an anagram, says: "We pilfer the news!" Add Sillies: Vic Mature sends the one about the horse in a maiden race at Belmont. He asked the steed in the next stall: "Have you ever run here before?" When the other oth-er nag nodded "yop," the newcomer replied happily: "Good! I'll follow you around. It's my first time here and I'd hate to get lost." In Fewer Words: "The Hollywood smoothie," grieves Hedy Lamarr, "takes back the car he's given the girl when the romance is over. He also quarrels with her so she will throw his diamond baubles in his face with which he quietly slinks away." In short, he slinks. The Story Tellers: Fortune lists the problems America is confronted with, and describes the situation as "the most desperate emergency that the democratic world ever faced." Senator Wheeler, who has a phrase to answer every fact, probably would call that "preaching fear" . . . Take a look at the most poisonous poison-ous of the theatergoers in the late Scott Fitzgerald's Esquire piece. You've been annoyed often by the same type of noisy stew bum, whom the author called "The Woman from Twenty-One" . . . "The woman who greets her man at the door," advises ad-vises the mag, You, "should be glad to see him not only as a human being be-ing but as a man." Mark the distinction. dis-tinction. Men! Liberty's expose on Lindbergh was sold out in 36 hours. Alley-Oop: Tommy Tucker hopes you haven't read it before, which you probably did, if you read the old Graphic. Anyhow, it's the one about the two acrobats who never played in New York and were booked into the city's "biggest theater." the-ater." They decided to look at the place ou their layoff period and went to the Met Opera House by mistake. They were a'.ved by the size of the Met and the enormous orchestra. Tner., ,-;::en the musicians played the first i'.rsi'is, one beefed: "How do you like that? They swiped our music?" |