Show P jv pl i p tales of 01 the towns town in adim a wise guy was commenting upon the way in which a news weekly picture ol of some notables looked dwarfed compared compare d to mrs roosevelt in their midst nothing said merry mae mac mcmichael to the way she dwarfs some deop people ae who arent even in the picture when queen wilhelmina wa was S in m the the united states during the die war she made a tour ot of inspection at west point the boys had been drilled for or days and every detail t all of protocol was carefully stud I 1 led ed except one no one informed the band which umber number n to play for her Maje entrance and the leader chose one of his favorite numbers without thinking of the occasion i so as the signal was I 1 given for the I 1 queens entrance with atwith every soldier standing rigidly at attention the band broke into the old gray mare she aint what she U used sed to be A group of editors were discussing in g the pros and cons of the OPA the NAM Is right said one after all got business experience peri ence that money cant buy also a iso got lobbies snapped a cynic that money can the intelligentsia the career caree ot f booth Is a lesson to pa page ge struck neophytes in the first five years ot of hi his writing apprenticeship the t two wo time pulitzer Pull tzer award winner earned the vast sum of 22 2250 50 dorothy thompson will also colm for a weekly louis fisher who A week with gandhi is flying to india to visit him theres a sizzling feud on between novelist james T farrell and book critic sterling north dr harold urey urcy atom bomb scientist one of the important ones will batcha we have an atom bomb war we r in less than 5 years it if the powers dont agree soon well goom bye bye aall nize colu fnning about you the OPA situation summed up it its a a question of 0 whether the prices will be held down or the people held up the funnies alex and heywood broun walked out on a new flop one night As he be left his tow row A pew alex bent over to pick up a flower that had fallen from a bouquet on the stage dont you know it Is bad luck chided broun to take flowers from a grave percy hammond once critiqued of a big show f failure a I 1 lure it I 1 is a th the e R first r s t t time lm e in theatre history that an audience ever suffered buffered from stage fright author somerset Maug maugham harn points out all Is grist tor for a writers mill I 1 dont create from the whole cloth eit herlof eithe reality or ol of fancy I 1 have in my literary kit items in the newspapers stray encounters in the street stories I 1 hear no matter where eventually out they grind either as a story or a play i the way a plu columnist grinds it every do day y not eve every ry year the story tellers gene fowler told irving berlin you are one of the very few immortals who is still mor mortal tall quotation marksmanship 0 henry her dress fitted her with fidelity and discretion beth bath brown up in the skyscrapers old women were filling their buckets with footprints phil baker baken A gal bool looking ang for a guy gay who could make her dough dreams come true anon he sat at his typewriter tenderly diapering his brain I 1 c hild child with neatly folded phrases py aras mark twain man w was a made at t ih the end of the weeks work when god was tired anon when a girl winks it means one of 0 two things she has something in her eye or she has somebody in it ben hecht he ate like a man with a stowaway his vest olive schreiner we talk so much of intellect and knowledge but what are they after all the heart cant live on them one would barter all ones knowledge for oue one kiss and all ones intellect tor for one tender touch just onel one tho the times berlin newsboy ray daniell Dan lell reported that the germans live in hope that there will be a war beaw n america and russia they believe that such a war will give them an opportunity to revive nazi ism in short when the allies knock each other its only opportunity knocking tor for nazis will rogers went to a dinner but know it was a political affair the speakers were unai unanimous itimous in peddling bigotry and hatred of the foreign for born As rogers rose to le leave avelIn kin disgust he heard himself announced as the next speaker who would give his views on the crying needs ot of the nation rogers turned and drawled after listening to those who preceded me I 1 have come to the conclusion that wh what t this country needs Is fresh blood and what I 1 need Is fresh air with that he left |