Show A behind the scenes stuff news pap ermens shoptalk shop talk includes the alleged reasons for the unpopularity of de in certain high political places one statesman said he is arrogant hard to get along with stuffy another revealed that de likes to make an entrance especially in swanky hotel dining rooms when a trumpeter too tootles his approach with some tada ta da deeda dee da dah dee da dading da hing this got on the nerves of allied big shots it is said mr willkie will certify to the last item de is called the bride when roosevelt discusses him with churchill via transatlantic trans atlantic phone once asked the prime minister hows howls the bride all right mr C is said to have answered but I 1 am having trouble with the groo groom mill meaning giraud americans and others should not forget de was the first to yell we will fight I 1 the squelch proper radie har ris relays the one about the feud between jane cowl and philip merl vale when they appeared in the road to rome hit their quarreling finally aroused director lester lonergan who succinctly said 1 I just want to remind you miss cowl that the billing on this play is jane cowl and philip merivale noti not jane cowl vs philip merivale aop recently a nazi prisoner of war escaped from the stockade at lamp camp crowder he learned the location of the camps supply warehouse bouse and got there without being detected he broke in shed his PW ini form put on an american uniform that draped him perfectly but then he made the boner resulting in his capture hunting through a stack of hats he e put one on that fit him then he stepped out across the camp grounds ds and was seized almost at once he had on the hat of a WAC ouch it happened before supreme court justice aaron J levy the man before him said 1 I would like to change my name its been a source of great embarrassment to me what is your name asked biz roner loner levy said the fellow rarely in the life of any jurist was the caustic retort comes there a motion which he can grant with such pleasure returned bomber pilots have a favorite story not new to some of us on the papers it deals with the U S bomber crew flying over switzerland which was hailed via radio by the ground crew of a swiss antiaircraft anti aircraft battery this is neutral territory get away or well open fire yes we know replied the yanks to which the guns ack ached hey radioed the americans your shells are exploding 1000 yards below us yes was the reply we know newspaperman stuff editor and publisher reports that lowell mellett who recently quit his post as abst to the president to do a syndicated column has just been granted a 5 raise by the st louis post dispatch a raise he requested 40 years ago at that time mellett asked his managing editor for the pay hike and when turned down he quit the PD P D was among the first to buy his it pays him the wage he got when a reporter As a matter of principle mellett asked the present editor to pay 5 extra he got this reply okay sorry you had to wait so long for it merciless truth john erskine recalls a college dean who used to say you teach a man mathematics if there was a girl in the room or if you could he be worth teaching nehe heh the editor of this week convulsed the column with the one about the sentry entry who heard a noise and called out who goes there A voice from the darkness answered jones let me through 1 I cant let you proceed sir without the password said the sentry oh for goodness sakes said the officer you know me well enough let me through no can do was the retort gotta have the password sir just then a bored with it all soldier in in the nearby guardhouse yelled oh d ont dont stand there arguing all night shoot him quotation marksmanship ted robinson A pessimist feels bad when he feels good for fear heu hell feel worse when he feels better dorothy F grant how many times are ar e we guilty of patriotism mary innis the frozen milk bottles wore crooked white top hats M cousins the lonely night sounds 0 of the prairie clawed at the windows window irving hoffman gentleman tl eman what women call any man they do dont nat know well J drinkwater poets make everlasting monuments of moments |