Show private papers of a ca cub b reporter thornton wilder was recently recalling his last visit to london after a luncheon at barries flat the exquisite little genius max beerbohm said mr wilder you remarked on the view of the thames from here wilder replied to the general effect 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 tact fact he spoke of it with such eloquence and such sensitiveness that really I 1 felt quite coarse the FBI is more interested in a prominent chicago psychiatrist who obtained an appointment to the morale board Boar dof of the col don donovan ovan office this doctor a I 1 hungarian 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 tiona tely inscribed that made it more than a routine investigation and led to the fact that fritz horvath hungarian Hun garin nazi leader is a frequent guest at the drs house and at conferences in a hideaway 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 business and professional fess ional 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 women chosen to represent the U S to to inspect civilian defense in england the list was prepared and sent to mrs roosevelt for her okay the names submitted did not measure up to her requirements and dissension grew to such a pitch that the idea has been temporarily pora rily deferred and possibly shelved A vet 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 his clothes he found the joint bep in blood and bodies on the floor the hatchets and knives still in em the bartender was moaning and weeping noisily what happened the d a shouted what happened was the reply as the tears dangled from his mustache every customer ran out without paying his checkl notes of an innocent bystander the Net workers dinah shore sings the blues on her new solo sunday spot and relieves you of yours frank blacks classic re renditions n di via american mel melody hour are something to hug take big time talents like paul murd muni judith anderson raymond massey ruth gordon mix with a topnotch top notch script and you have that red cross program good as the cause betty hutton is a zippy i person welcome to the bob hope bill he said vitamin pills take herl her you dont wonder hearing richard crooks sing why he is with the met but you wonder why james melton who precedes him on the same station everybody 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 the story 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 its good advice if you happen to be porter but late even for him movie radio gulde guide starts a two in stal ment expose on this columns favorite news new S commentator commentate Comment at 0 r in the current issue the fa fallacy alacy 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 tailed failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent months some people it seems mistake the chicago tribune for the midwest mid west the press box another correspondent spon dent with a good book is mond dingell 1 11 civilians s must fight ight daniell 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 10 playing cards somerset maugham in a foreword to the danieu daniell volume explains news censors censo as more to do anxious not no right the one wr 0 rig thing than to ta do dal the |