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Show Memos of a Columnist's Girl Friday: Dear Mr. W.: Mrs. Billy Hill, widow wid-ow of the man who wrote "Last Roundup" and other delightful songs, called. Wishes we'd help locate lo-cate friends who were at the Windsor Wind-sor hotel bar in May, 1939, when Hill made changes in his will. For their child's sake, etc. . . . Quentin Reynolds Rey-nolds is getting many a quarter via poker and other games from friends and strangers for relief of kin of RAF boys . . . Several months ago we ran a quip about two commys (carrying packages) who passed each other, one saying: "What time is it by your bomb?" . . . Page 52 of the Satevepost just ran it as a cartoon. Our Sing Sing keeper friend assures as-sures us the Jimmy Hines slugging stories are spurious. That Hines is I popular with all prisoners, etc. The War Dep't is discussing a plan to suspend all commercial airline traffic next month or in April for a day. All available planes will be used to transport troops to designated desig-nated spots as a test. How come nobody realizes this? That the Nazi radio station which asked Americans to cable requests (they'd like to hear) will only accept ac-cept friendly messages because they intend contacting those Americans later on for sabotage or other reasons? rea-sons? In case you missed Mayor La-Guardia's La-Guardia's description of a negotiated negotiat-ed peace: "It's like this. Suppose a man is living happily out on the range with his wife and children. One day he comes home and finds that a vile man has invaded the sanctity of his home and attacked 1 his wife. And suppose that injured man invites the attacker to stay in the house as his star-boarder. That's a negotiated peace!" . . . Why don't you do a col'm asking whatever what-ever became of the Senator Wheeler plan to probe soandso? And so on? I'll dig up some for you ... So many people make such big statements state-ments threatening to do this and' that, and after it gets in the papers that's usually the last you hear of it ... I heard this today: That if Russia permits Germany a free hand in the Balkans it'll be in return for unhampered Russ action in Sweden. Swe-den. ... By being a patriot Willkie has found out something many of us never learn in a lifetime. He's discovered dis-covered his enemies among his friends! Y our Girl Friday. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: It isn't hard to spot Hitler's angle in his short wave invitation in-vitation to Americans to cable him advice, C. O. D. If the message rubs him the right way, he files the sender's name as a future Bunds-man. Bunds-man. If it's an insult, the man who signs it is one for the Hun errand boys over here to watch out for. Berlin is glad to pay $2.19 tor each message that gives the Gestapo a line on U. S. citizens, good or bad ... John T. McManus, reviewing Guy Lombardo's 10 years among the headliners, finds that the band leader keeps compromising with changing musical modes. His band, McManus adds, "says musical things nicely, like a William Lyon Phelps book review" . . . When the commentators get too gloomy you can always escape to some of the standbys . . . Easy Aces and Fibber McGee and Molly still hold up handsomely, with an undiminish-ir.g undiminish-ir.g quota of laughs. The Front Pages: One newspaper the Axis hasn't tamed is the Vatican Vati-can organ, Ossevatore Romano. Every Ev-ery edition nails the Nazi-Fascist lies that try to tell you the Catholic church is on their side . . . The shellackings the Fascisti have taken in Africa have made Ga-Gayda the leading humorist in Europe. He talks yet of "the fierce resistance" of Graziano's troops in Libya-meaning, Libya-meaning, doubtless, their fierce resistance re-sistance to danger . . . Dorothy Thompson recalled a Huey Long crack that explains the conduct of a lot of popper-offers in Washington. Washing-ton. American Fascism, predicted Huey, would never emerge as a Fascist, but as a 100 per cent American Amer-ican movement. See? . . . The headlines reported that Franco and Mussolini met and agreed . . . What most likely happened was that Franco said he didn't like the war-arid war-arid Benito agreed ... Hi Phillips insists it is silly to see D. Fairbanks criticize Lindbergh . . . Almost as comical as Lindbergh criticizing F. D. R., Hi? The Story Tellers: Collier's claims tnat H. R. 1776 is an all-out-or Democracy De-mocracy Bill. Their editorial points out that it may give F. D. R. a great deal of power, but without that power Britain might fall and leave the U. S. powerless . . . The SEP predictions of all kinds of gloom for America are put in a brighter light if you remember that it made similar simi-lar gloomy warnings every time Roosevelt ran for President. But America is still here . . . Some say a great American magazine U writing its own Sepitaph . . . i |