Show 1 A lint from a blue serge suits suit jut just before the war jan un lin the eminent polish pianist was on a world concert tour and at one on point visited Valde mosa on the island ot of majorca which was the place where chopin lived biln visited the rn monastery on astery which was chapins Cho pins home and has since been turned into a private residence ce hoping to sei see the piano on which chopin played he was told that the piano was now the property 0 of a private family in palma sm eler located that family and as he be td stood in rapt awe looking at this box which was the instrument of the great polish immortal the man 0 of the house said surely mr smet erlin youre ire going to play on IT replied reverently ohi oh 1 think of touching it to which his host said oh nonsense my children bang on it all the aimel supreme court justice lingo black is a fiend f for or lyonnaise lyonn alse potatoes A new waitress wa it ress at his favorite favo frene restaurant brought him french tries fries to in error and told him she change the order A washington reporter seated near by asked as ked her it if she knew the patron was a united states high court judge unimpressed she refused to t 0 change the order explaining how ho W often do they change the their r decisions cis ci lons weve welve only used it twice before but every time some contributor offers it we get the giggles and have t to print it over again its about mr and his four year old son etzle they were strolling in the park and the boy kept asking all sorts of questions it was getting on poppa persisted itzie wot kind flowers is doze how should I 1 know exploded am I 1 in the millinery james gordon bennett who used to own the N Y herald had a list of bonts don ts tor for reporters that was as long as the memory of a radio comedian every once in a while though the boys made him take one back dont use patron or guest in referring to a paying customer at a hotel one rule went because you are using the word incorrectly the rule was changed when the boys on the rewrite desk searching for other words started to refer to persons who registered at hotels as inmates I 1 new yorkers notebook the english are giggling over the cooks dog at an RAFI yIng field the canine dashed down the runway in pursuit of 0 a plane taking off ff does your dog always do that a new officer asked the cook said yep why the officer wanted to know 1 I dont know sir air replied the dogs owner but what worries me is what hes going to do with it when he catches a plane ivor newton the london pianist heard a cockney give this explanation ot of his own courage regarding the robot bombings 1 I see it like this it must take the germans a lot of trouble to make the bloody things and then they have to get them into those pits and up in the air and it is quite a long way from france to london and it if they do get to london they still have to find and limehouse and even then it everyone who can find 37 bulstrode road where I 1 live and it if they do its 10 to I 1 that I 1 would ifould be down the corner in the pub at the home borne of mutual friends after the f funeral cunera 1 of the archbishop of canterbury winston churchill who was touched by the prelates pr elates passing said once again the nation has lost a great churchman and a great englishman then in an aside mr churchill who credits his 70 years to having a drink now and then added and once again one of my good friends has m met et the untimely end of a complete teetotal erl story of the week the newest general patton patten legend ac according dording to just returned correspondents when the germans cold b lood edly murdered gen maurice rose patton was strangely silent tor for a long time then he reached blom slowly into his jacket pocket from which chic he removed a german english dictionary 11 ra and crossed out the word mercy the other night prof leo idels man relayed the one about the trainee at a naval radio training center in georgia his station was the radio tower he became worried when he account tor for an incoming fleet of planes he flashed bashed X radio tower calling pilot jones been messaging you but got no answer if you hear me wings shortly came the reply pilot jones calling X radio tower tover I 1 landed two hours ago if you ties hear ne me |