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Show Tales of the Toiin: In the Astor the other midnight Romo Vineent got a big laugh tell ing palsabout the drunk who zigzagged zig-zagged into a bar and ordered a triple martini. . . . After swallowing two of them he decided the bartender barten-der was his friend. Reaching into his ooat pocket he brought forth a live lobster and offered it to the bartender, bar-tender, who tried refusing it several sev-eral times. . . . Finally, the bartender bar-tender decided it would be better to take the damb thing than argue aooui it. "Okay," fee said, gripping the lobster, lob-ster, "I'll take it home for dinner." "Oh, no, don't do that!" cried the lush. "He's already had dinner-take dinner-take him to the movies!" A war correspondent back from Tokyo brought this. You may recall re-call that when Tojo shot himself, an American commentator in Japan flashed: 'Tojo has killed himself!" . . . When the reporter returned to Tojo's house he learned the old so-and-so was still alive. . . . "Oh, damn it!" shrieked the broadcast-er. broadcast-er. "I just told CBS listeners that he killed himself!" Tojo was lying on his back and the blood was flowing. . . . One G.l. looked at another. Someone suddenly sud-denly broke the hush and said; "What the hell? He's gonna die anyway and good riddance. Let's turn the So-and-So over on his belly 6o the blood will run more freely!" ... And' they did so. . . . Pretty soon the doctor arrived and examined exam-ined Tojo. . . . Turning to the G.I.s and correspondents the doctor inquired: in-quired: "Who turned him over?" ... "We did!" they all yelled. "Well," sighed the doc, "you saved his life." Shirley Temple's book, "My Young Life" (her autobiography), which was written by a New York girl at a .weekly wage. . . . Madeleine Made-leine darroll spurning all screen and stage offers to continue serving tlie Red Cross. ... Dinah Shore copping every popularity poll this year for gal thrushes. . . . The way Pres. Truman has "aged" in his first season at the White House. Not physically but over his unhap-piness unhap-piness at the way "my old friends in the Senate, have let m down." Earl Browder (former chief of the Americommies) is being investigated investigat-ed by a special board of the Nat'l Committee of the Communist Party. They suspect him of organizing an 1 opposing faction within the party. I i June Haver has ealled off her romance with' Vic Mature. He's so busy squiring Cleatus Caldwell, anyhow. any-how. . . . Ruth Hogg, who vocals on some Harry James recordings, is Betty Grable. . . . Wm. Eythe is coming here to visit Margaret Whiting, Whit-ing, which debunks the tritems of a parting. Lindbergh intermediary Irving Bitz is back working for an eve'g paper. , . . Norma Richter, one of the three top models (making $1,000 weekly), has chucked it all to marry mar-ry Chas. Rose, coast gem merchani. . . . "Oklahoma! Gin" Is the rage. Players get ten cards each the next card Is turned up. Players can't knock with less than ten points than the value of that card. It's the newest short cut to ruin. . . . Art-craft Art-craft Hosiery (one of the biggest arms) will bet any amount that ny- lensHyillHrai tee available (In retail stores) until some time in 1947. . . . " After twenty-four years' service to our country, underpaid G-Man Hoover Hoo-ver is broke. Fiddle-Faddle and Piffle: Willkie ' mill nn o etnnnn snnn .Tamps Melton may get the role of "Curly" in the film version of "Okla." . . . John Roosevelt, recently libeled in a syndicated col'm (from Washington) as a "conchie," will be interested to learn that the author has since been fired. . . . John W. Raper, the ageless age-less Cleveland philosopher, has put his pepigrams between covers. It Is titled: "What This World Needs." . . .Joseph E. Da vies may auth another book to clear up matters since Potsdam. . . . John Gunther has visited 47 states to compile data for bis next book, "Inside U.S.A." He will visit Delaware as soon as - he is completely mended from the flu. He Is sunning at the Rbney-Pleasure Rbney-Pleasure Cabana Club. Talk about gall! In an interview with an American newsboy, Musso- lini's spouse defended the policies and the Romeoing of her two-timing - hubby. She then added that she wished to come to America to give lectures. What! And give Liz Dilling com- petition? Chorus girls, believe it or not, ; often discuss politics. At picks; Blair's Carnival the other night one asked: "Why are there two polit ical parties? Is it that there are jV two sides to every question?" k "No," observed Jayns Westbrook, "it's because there are two sides t to every political officer-outside and inside." v C M Broadway Wisegny: On Broad- , way an Honest Guy Is the One Who 1 Double-Crosses You Exactly the Way You Expected Him To. " |