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Show LI 1 jtrL. Man About Town: San Franciscans are talking about: The more than 200 G-Men (not including the numerous state department confidential agents and New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Or-leans, etc., ace detectives) to guard the delegates and diplomats. The ' Big City "dicks" are assigned to spot well - known pickpockets, "dips," rogues galleryites and "cannons" "can-nons" as big-time crooks are called by the gendarmes. . . . The heaviest protection is for Russia's Mr. Molotov. ... As one John Edgar Ed-gar Hoover man put it: "He'll be guarded by nearly 200 Russian secret se-cret servicemen so an FBI agent won't get within 200 yards of him." FDR's pal, Charlie Michelson (he was 75 the other day), raising eyebrows eye-brows with the prediction: "Mayor LaGuardia may be the Democratic nominee for governor of N. Y." . . . John Metcalfe, the Washington correspondent, here for a New York gazette. He's finishing a book called "Tin Cup Diplomacy," which will please the underpaid working in our state department. . . . The return re-turn of Joe Rosenthal (this is his home burg). Joe is the AP hocus-focuser hocus-focuser who took that wonderful picture of the Flag being planted on Iwo Jima. . . . Kent Cooper, the AP boss, is offering reproductions of the famed photo at $1 the profits to go to the Marines via Navy Relief. : pSky- v. - - WALTER WIXCHELL IN SAN FRANCISCO KA ijy DREW PEARSON WORLD LEADERS PICTURE By the thread of one man's lif ! hung personal relationships whicl affected nations. Prime minister! and potentates, once close to Frank lin Roosevelt, now must learn how to get along with an unknown gentleman gentle-man in the .White House. Certair army-navy officials, who always knew how Roosevelt would react or this and that, now must do business with a man they once criticized. To illustrate how the pendulum of fate has swung, here are some of those who will miss Franklin Roosevelt most:' WINSTON CHURCHILL was able to call the late President on the telephone at any time night or day. Their relationship was more Intimate than with most members of their own cabinets. When Churchill Church-ill couldn't get Roosevelt, he talked to Harry Hopkins. Their friendship was equally close. Hopkins and Churchill used to ,stay up late at night sipping brandy long after FDR had gone to bed, and it was those late-hour talks that sometimes worried U. S army-navy men. For vital policy sometimes was moulded after midnight. Churchill had planned to hold national na-tional elections, probably in June, and Roosevelt's friendship would have been one of his great campaign cam-paign assets. That asset is now out the window. Instead he must do business with a man he doesn't know and who chairmanned a committee whose members were quite critical of certain British lend-lease and in-, ternational air policies abroad. Some political observers believe that makes Churchill's political future fu-ture very uncertain. ADMIRAL ERNEST KING The Commander of the Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations really ran the navy under Roosevelt, and he ran it with a high hand. He ignored the late Secretary Frank Knox when-1 when-1 ever he felt like it, knowing he would get a sympathetic ear at the White House. He even overruled Knox on such a trivial matter as a gray-blue summer uniform for the navy, though Knox had decided it would cut too heavily into the consumption of textiles. Knox's successor, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, has played in with King. He had to. If King didn't agree with him, the admiral came out bluntly in press conference and said so. But now there is a new man in the White House who wrote a caustic caus-tic report bitterly critical of the way the admirals slowed up the war by failure to build adequate landing boats. The new President also did not hesitate to throw his hooks into the navy whenever the brass hats 1 got inefficient, especially on their in- excusable procrastination in building build-ing destroyer-escort vessels. So fellow-admirals are watching to see just where King now sits. GENERAL B. B. SOMERVELL No army officer clashed with the Truman committee more frequently and more head-on than the tough-talking tough-talking chief supply officer of the army. Somervell differed with Truman Tru-man on all sorts of things, and the Truman committee reports are studded stud-ded with criticism of the army's supply sup-ply job. Truman is not a man to nurse personal grudges and won't demote or transfer Somervell. General Marshall always maintained that despite de-spite mistakes he was the best man they had. But Somervell will never become chief of staff, or rise any higher in the army. HARRY HOPKINS Of all those around Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins will miss him most. Their's was a very close personal relationship. Although Harry has been criticized vitriolically, sometimes even by other oth-er presidential intimates, FDR never nev-er wavered In his devotion. In a way, Harry took the place of Roosevelt's Roose-velt's eldest son, Jimmie, whom he once hoped would be his secretary. So Harry will miss his old friend terribly. The critics will say that Hopkins will miss him because of the glamour, glam-our, the power and the prestige. But actually there was a love and devotion devo-tion between the two men which few realized and even fewer understood. Note Several years aio, Roosevelt Roose-velt gave Hopkins permission to take notes on their discussions and write his memoirs. "You have no money Harry," he said, "and you're foolish If you don't take notes on our eon versatlons. You have my full pe mission to use them later." But Hopkins, always too busy, always engrossed with winning the Chief's next objective never had time to take notes, lie knows more about lloosevelt than any other living man hut most of the secrets will go with Hopkins to the K'ave ItllRNAHI) !tli(ll The man who InlUs with Presidents, no lunger has the key to the White House During the hitter battles between tin War Production hoard civilian groii and General Somervell's militun elliue, Haruch always hacked ii Somervell. In fact, he was one n' Somervell's most vigorous support ers. Truman, on Ihe other hand, fnugh In Ihe Writ civilian corner, AIm Heinle was for llvrnes. not l'n man. at the Chleago convention S he may not he aurh a close trleo lo rrealih'uls any more The renowned rivalry between Los Angeles and the San Francisco t correspondents, which George Polk ! carries on from his Washington beat j for his L. A. paper. George won't i refer to it as the San Francisco conference. con-ference. He calls it the California conference. . . . The "real reason" I Cong. Clare Luce returned to Italy. They say she wrote a book there in which she does "a job" on Edda Mussolini. Mike McDermott, the popular special ass't to Sec'y of Statetinius. He arranged hotel rooms for over 900 newspaper men, newsreel cameramen, cam-eramen, colyumists and radio prima donnas and then wound up with no-"decent" no-"decent" space in which to sleep himself. . . . The musical show, "Watch Out Angel," which folded at the Curran theater Satdee night after a three-week run. Too bad. Some of the score was very good and several people in it are talented. tal-ented. . . . The Alcazar theater renamed re-named the United Nations theater. Its new marquee was arranged via the War Production board via request re-quest of the state department. Glenn Allvlne of tie Will Hays zoo is in charge. Th Hollywood films there-will there-will be changed daily for the delegates. dele-gates. "Oolng My Way," frixample, will be heard in Czech for the Czechs. In Portuguese for the Brazilians, Bra-zilians, etc. Jack's for Big Town food, better than most spots in New York. . , . The two Stork clubs. And S. Bil-llngsley Bil-llngsley can't do a thing about the name piracy, either. Seems they registered the name in Calif, before Mr. B. got hep. . . . Barbara Burke. ex-Follies dolly, recently divorced, di-vorced, who becomes a bride again shortly. She's the prettiest gov't worker In town. . . . Ralph Ober's comment: "The passing of FDR was the shock heard around the world. . . . Ernie Fyle, who died with the Americans he loved. But he will live in the hearts of Americans Ameri-cans who loved him. The plight of S. F. rcstnuranteurst and swank hotels trapped between CPA rules and the confabbers. No butter, no steaks, etc. . . . But you have little trouble getting what you wmit In the small restaurants along Market street. ArelilbuUl Miicl.elsh who has put up his Alexandria. Va., house for sale on the cue-tee. He's nskim; $it,0W. . . . Jimmy Byrnes' report on mobilization and reconversion which has nil Kngland talking It's on their best-seller list. . . The suggestion sug-gestion that t'PU's prolUe In put on dimes. Good Idea, especially for th March of Oimes drive. I'resldenl 'I'luiuitn's llrst query to politico. looking for patronage. "I know whom lie knows, and ) that, but what can ho do"" |