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Show Wa .4 tout Toivn: San Franciscans are talking about: The more than 200 G-Men (not including the numerous state department confidential agents and New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Or-leans, etc., ace detectives) to guard the delegates and diplomats. The Big City "dicks" are assigned to spot well - known pickpockets, "dips," rogues galleryites and "cannons" "can-nons" as big-time crooks are called by the gendarmes. . . . The heaviest protection is for Russia's Mr. Molotov. ... As one John Edgar Ed-gar Hoover man put it: "He'll be guarded by nearly 200 Russian secret se-cret servicemen so an FBI agent won't get within 200 yards of bim." FDR's pal, Charlie Michelson (he was 75 the other day), raising eyebrows eye-brows with the prediction: "Mayor LaGuardia may be the Democratic nominee for governor of N. Y." . . . John Metcalfe, the Washington correspondent, here for a New York gazette. He's finishing a book called "Tin Cup Diplomacy," which will please the underpaid working in our state department. ... The return re-turn of Joe Rosenthal (this is his home burg). Joe is the AP hocus-focuser hocus-focuser who took that wonderful picture of the Flag being planted on Iwo Jima. . . . Kent Cooper, the AP boss, is offering reproductions of the famed photo at $1 the profits to go to the Marines via Navy Relief. ;,r:; ' ;- lt A WALTER WINCHELL IN SAN FRANCISCO - The renowned rivalry between Los Angeles and the San Francisco correspondents, which George Polk carries on from his Washington beat for his L. A. paper. George won't refer to it as the San Francisco conference. con-ference. He calls it the California conference. . . . The "real reason" Cong. Clare Luce returned to Italy. They say she wrote a book there in which she does "a job" on Edda Mussolini. Mike McDermott, the popular special ass't to Sec'y of Statetinius. He arranged hotel rooms for over 900 newspaper men, newsreel cameramen, cam-eramen, colyumists and radio prima donnas and then wound up with no "decent" space in which to sleep himself. . . . The musical show, "Watch Out Angel," which folded at the Curran theater Satdee night after a three-week run, Too bad. Some of the score was very good and several people in lt are talented. tal-ented. . . . The Alcazar theater renamed re-named the United Nations theater. Its new marquee was arranged via the War Production board via request re-quest of the state department. Glenn Allvlne of the Will Hays zoo is in charge. The Hollywood films there win be cbunged daily for the delegates. dele-gates. "Going My Way," frixample, will be heard in Czech for the Czechs. In Portuguese for the Brazilians, Bra-zilians, etc. Jack's for Big Town food, better than most spots in New York. . . . The two Stork clubs. And S. Bil-lingsley Bil-lingsley can't do a thing about the name piracy, either. Seems they registered the name in Calif, before Mr. B. got hep. . . . Barbara Burke, ex-Follies dolly, recently divorced, di-vorced, who becomes a bride again shortly. She's the prettiest gov't worker in town. . . . Ralph Ober's comment: "The passing of FDR was the shock heard around the world. . . . Ernie Pyle, who died with the Americans he loved. But he will live in the hearts of Americans Ameri-cans who loved him. The plight of S. F. restaurantenrs and swank hotels trapped between OPA rules and the confabbers. No butter, no steaks, etc. . . But you have little trouble getting what you want in the small restaurants along Market street. Archibald MacLeish who has put up his Alexandria, Va., house for llleD toe CUe-tee' He's "king ?65,000. . . . Jimmy Byrnes' report on mobilization and reconversion which has all England talking It's on their best-seller list. . The sug-gestion sug-gestion that FDR's profile be put on dimes. Good idea, especially for the March of Dimes drive. President Truman's first query to politicos looking for patronage- "1 know whom he knows, and all that, but what can he do?" |