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Show NotfS of a New Yorker: The New York papers recently offered of-fered an article by Gypsy Rose Lee's mother. The story was about Gypsy Gyp-sy .. . New Yorkers are familiar ivith the silly quarrel between these two . . . Supposed to have started when Gypsy wrote articles for a magazine about her early career In which her mater was kidded a lot and unfrocked a little . . . Broad-wayites Broad-wayites later heard buzzing about mother and daughter getting to the point of name-calling. Once Gypsy received a telegram from her Mom, which warned that unless the two could get together about a certain matter she the mother would "give" the story to the newspapers. "Look, Mom, don't be a fool," replied re-plied Gypsy, "don't give it to the papers. Sell it to them." Now Is probably the last time to recount this instance of the humorous humor-ous by-play that went on between FDR and Henry Wallace. When Mae West was suing Frank Wallace for divorce the papers were full of stories sto-ries headed "Mae West Charges Wallace Wal-lace Unkind to Her." The President scissored one out and sent it to the vice president with a note (in his own handwriting) reading, "Henry, is this the way to treat your women?" wom-en?" Ernie Pyle reported the incident of captured Nazi General von Schlie-ben, Schlie-ben, who squawked to Yank commanders com-manders about American photographers photogra-phers taking his picture without asking ask-ing permission . . . And how General Gen-eral Collins reminded Von Schlieben that in the United States there is a free press "and we in the army cannot stop our newspapers from printing the news and taking pictures." pic-tures." In Time (or Life) a few editions edi-tions ago, we read what the photographer photog-rapher said when Von Schlieben barked: "Oh, I am bored with you American photographers taking my picture." The American hocus-focus man (who understood German) snapped back: "And I'm bored taking tak-ing pictures of captured Nazi generals." gen-erals." This is the newest Russian gag overheard at the Madison Bar: "So Ivan Ivanovitch died gallantly In the midst of battle," sobbed Katerlna Mikhailovna Mfkhailovitch. "You say he uttered my name with his last breath?" "Part of it," replied the returned soldier, "only part of it." An ironic fact is that George M. Cohan never could scribble a successful suc-cessful ditty about baseball, the sport he loved so much. Cohan, as all Broadway knew, was a Polo Grounds faithful. Yet the two songs he wrote about baseball were never performed more than a few tired times, even with John McGraw and the Giants lending themselves to ita promotion. Yet Albert Von Tilzer's "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is as famous as the game itself, and Von Tilzer saw his first baseball contest con-test only a short while back, aftei his tune had been played and sung for decades. "Take Me, etc.," was not the firsl baseball song ever written. In 188f a ballplayer named Kelly was an idd up in Boston. A faithful fan scribblec a ditty tagged "Slide, Kelly, Slide." The three-word phrase became mori popular than the song. A song was responsible for finish Ing a baseball star's promising ca reer when it looked as though h might develop into another Hubbel or Walter Johnson. His name wai Harry Covaleskie, and he was witl the Phillies. One season he established himsel by pitching against the Giants thre times in five days (beating them ti all starts) and taking a pennan' right from under their noses.. The Giants, burned up, found out latei that Covaleskie, as a kid, hat trouped in amateur vaudeville sing ing "Silver Threads Among thi Gold." One afternoon the following sum mer Covaleskie was hurling agains' the Giants when from their dug-ou came the strains of "Silvei Threads." The Giants kept this ui all during that series, and other Na tional League clubs followed with tht same ribbing ... In six weeks, Co valeskie was a nervous wreck . . The following year saw him fadt from baseball completely. Despite the ODT's warning: against unnecessary travel, vaca tion travel is up 10 per cent. Ap parently, there are people who won' do anything to help win the war-even war-even if it means slaying home ant doing rnthing. A certain New York State Senator after a nervous breakdown and 1 holiday in a sanitarium, was pro nounced honky-dooly ... He re turned to the Senate at Albany where he engaged in a hot debati the first day. During the debate, one of his oppo nents, forgetting the man's illness lost his temper and yelled: "You're crazy." Pulling out his discharge certifi cate, Our Hero waved it and said: "I can prove I'm sane now cat you?" |