Show a notes of a newspaperman story of a song once upon a time march 1943 songwriter johnny burke dined at the home of harry lillis crosby gary oldest son of 0 crosby was spouting monosyllable monosyllabic thumb noses at the principles of american mexican nex ican education in sum he hated school burke waved a worldly way w ay finger my V boy he said you should be glad youre go ing to school how would you like to be a fish A fish cant read or write or go to ball games all he can do is swim around and when he gets tired thred of swimming one way he turns around and swims the other if you like that sort ot of life y you might grow up to be a fish i ir mr burke r was impressed with his own philosophy he hastened to his partner jimmy van heusen and repeated the dissertation on fish As a result Sw Ingin on a tar was born and cast in going my way starring bing soon after the picture premiered the ditty made the hit parade and stayed on it for 20 straight weeks it became a minor national anthem with kids who asked kin it if like to be a fish or a mule clergymen used the thema them in sermons and joe E lewis parodied would you like to hang on a bar with a dame like hedy lamarr very soon a book on the theme will be published cl they may make a film based on it its s S tory story too anyway what came of a kid saying he like school and why J burke and J van heusen pay surtaxes sur taxes ambassador to brazil A A berles wits wife la Is known for her frankness recently at a dinner in washington mrs berle cornered a russian general and asked him a few pointed questions t the dialog went something like this his answers are in parentheses what Is rus sias present aim to defeat the enemy what are you going to do with germany conquer her and with poland liberate her and what will you yon do when you arrive at the rhine take a swim we have just finished noel cow ard ards middle east diary and the following paragraph in it belongs here considering cowards recent i jam over his comment in the book about brooklyn soldiers at ten he observes 1 I went to call on general eisenhower Elsen hower he combats untiringly the little cracks and lampoons and jokes spread b by the british against the americans and vice versa I 1 believe he even sacked an important member of his staff tor for making a minor con tribu tion to this dangerous subversive racket one silly little man with one laborious joke can cause an incredible amount of damage frank munn called the american album of familiar music cast together and said 1 lt I just wanted to tell you a little story frank hum mert once approached me and offered a spot on this program 1 asked for how long do you want me maybe 13 weeks he said maybe 13 years 1 I just wanted to tell all of you that tonight Is the anniversary of my year on the american album ot of familiar music munn holds no contract A handshake cemented the deal the coly collums urns recent experience because of an omitted comma in a telegram recalls this one about a refugee college prof dining in a restaurant near columbia university speaking english with that acquired precision which so often shames the native born he ordered figs and cream the waitress brought a dish of figs covered with cream I 1 1 I ordered figs and cream he pr protested ot ested well she said there they ere are but he persisted this is figs WITH cleaml so what she so chatted wrong with it madam said the professor icily would you say a woman and child were the same as a woman with child newspapermen will tell you that corrections sometimes are worse than the original story this is a concrete example our paper carried the notice last week that mr john doe was a defective in the police force this was a typographical error mr poe doe Is really a detective in the po police ilce farce scrambled E eggs ggs betty suttons Hut tons stand tand in tn is marie osborne better known a decade ago as the famous hild star baby marle marie helen vorrest the thrush has shelved 15 Is in two weeks which is too fast before re dark clark gable came to town anita olby colby asken askea him to phone sister francine Pran cine when he got here he called her and said this Is dark clark gable really replied francine and this is lana turnell Tur nerl and hung cupl he ae never reached her |