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Show Typewriter Doodling: Love-Letter Dept.: From Emery Reves, author of the best-seller, "The Anatomy of Peace." . . . "This is one f the most peculiar moments of history. The problem of war between the nations is solved. The organization of peace on a world-wide level is within our grasp. And yet the probability is that we shall run into our own destruction de-struction because of the conform-ism conform-ism and complacency of the press, radio, movies, churches and all the other organizations and technical media of mass enlightenment and education. I thank you for the rare exception you represent." Quotation Marksmanship: R. C. O'Brien: Think, before you brag about your ancestors would they brag about you? . . . Chuchu Martinez: Mar-tinez: As inseparable as ham and ego. . . . Irving Hoffman:- Ethel Merman's tombouyancy. . . . Anon: We have two ends, one to sit on, the other to think with. Success depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose! . . . J. Joubert; Mediocrity is excsllent to the mediocre. ... I. Panln: All wish for a long life; few realize it means old age. . . . R. Frost: The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work and the rest willing to let them. . . . Mile. Ber-tin: Ber-tin: There's nothing new except what is forgotten. . . . Dr. Wm. Brady: And other things too bloomerous to mention. . . . Eric Remarque: Women should be adored or abandoned nothing in-between. Larry Singer, visiting the bunch, told of the hoax put over (In the 1930s) by the editors of the Cornell University Sun. . . . They sent out J scores of invitations to political leaders throughout the nation, asking ask-ing them to attend a dinner in honor hon-or of Hugo N. Frye, "the founder of the Republican Party in N. Y. State." . . . Effusive tributes to that stalwart gentleman came from many Congressmen, Senators and Governors When the Sun staff finally held their shindig they revealed re-vealed the name of their hero "You-Go-and-Fry I " Some of the lobster shift over at the N. Y. Mirror (having put the final edition to bed) sat around gabbing gab-bing about the craft. They rehashed Irv Leiberman's saga about the two correspondents (for a national mag) who had strolled out of a mess hall at a Pacific base. . . . Just then a beautiful beau-tiful native doll, ankled towards them along the road. . . . She came on gracefully, looking neither right nor left. ... As she passed, one of the lads clutched the other for support, sup-port, and both gave her a double-take. double-take. ' ' Her button-down-the-front dress was securely fastened by eight Good Conduct Ribbons! Johnny and Mike Hodgins of the composing room brought In this clipping, which Editor & Publisher quoted from a mid-west paper. "Pa," said the subscriber's little daughter, "why do editors always refer to themselves as 'we'?" "So that," replied papa, "the fellow fel-low who doesn't like what is printed about him will think there are too many for him to lick." Several correspondents have reported re-ported that the American occupation occupa-tion of western Germany Is proceeding proceed-ing according to anything but the plan set at Potsdam. . . . One of the staff, who recently returned from there, explained: "The DPs are getting kicked around while some Nazis live in comfort. That's at the bottom. At the top, German Industrialists are being helped back into power instead of being Indicted In-dicted as war criminals. It seems that the Nazi occupation of Germany Ger-many is proceeding smoothly and the Hitlerites are determined that the U. S. zone will soon be completely com-pletely de-Americanized." One of the interesting observations observa-tions came from Irving, the night phone operator. ... He told of the editor of Algar, an astrologists' mag. . . . This editor used to get as high as $1,000 per reading from Wall Streeters. ... He once took a policy from broker Max Reibeisen for $10,000. . . . "Do you," said Max, "wish to pay it annually, semiannually semi-annually or quarterly?" "Quarterly up until July 21st," said the astrologer. "It is silly after aft-er that because my horoscope says I'll die then." On July 21st, to the very day, Reibeisen received a phone call from Atlantic City. . . . The astrologer astrol-oger succumbed from pneumonia. Critic Robert Coleman said that Alec Woollcott once slept through an opening and then, after filing his review with Western Union, went to Sardi's, where he promptly fell asleep at a table. "Look at that guy," said Kelcy Allen, "taking an encore!" A newswcekly (the other issue) featured this: Justice Murphy's opinions are now referred to in Supreme Su-preme court circles nu "justice tempered with Murphy." |