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Show Man About Toicn: Lady Astor is trying to arrange a "visit to the U. S." mainly to avoid being summoned as a witness by the war criminals at Nuernburg, who still fondly recall the Cliveden Set . . . The State Dep't Is anxious to learn just how Doris (World's Richest Gal) Duke could enter Italy without a visa, which the State Dep't didn't give her. . . . The reason Herbert Hoover's marriage to a wealthy widder is being retarded, they say, is "family static." . . . Biggest Big-gest story that ever happened in the Washington Press Club didn't make any of the papers. A. U. S. Marine, fed up with a columnist's poison about FDR, etc., picked him up bodily and tossed him from the bar into the lobby. After the San Francisco Conference, Confer-ence, a Russian attache visited Hollywood Hol-lywood as the guest of Gregory Rat-off, Rat-off, the director. . . . Ratoff pointed out numerous movie queens. . . , On one set Ratoff sighed: "They are all so beautiful, but, unfortunately, unfortu-nately, they don't stay happily married mar-ried very long!" . . . "In Russia," explained the visitor, "one reason marriages last longer is that a wife looks the same after washing her face!" At the 400 (which features name bands) a Broadway song pluggei had too much to drink and started ' being a bore. "Oh," oh'd Lenore Lemmon, "climb back into your flask!" Errol Flynn's forthcoming book, "The Showdown," Is said to be better bet-ter than his first book. ... As Flynn strolled with his friend, artist John Decker, John remarked: "I wonder won-der if Hollywood will believe you wrote it?" "Yes," said Errol, "if they think It's not good." In Ciro's the other midnight Jack Haley was seated near an actor who had just lost a chance for a choice role in a film. He was popping off about "all the inefficient directors, blind producers, two-timing agents, etc." . . . Jack turned to his wife Flo and niftied: "Pardon me, honey, hon-ey, but I think I smell somebody burning." Lee Sullivan, the singer, relays the yarn about the two shipwrecked drama critics. They drifted for weeks on a raft. . . . The more frightened of the two started seek-ig seek-ig forgiveness for his sins. "I've been a louse all my life," he said. "I've been cruel to actors. Too often I went out of my way to hurt them. If I'm spared,' I promise. prom-ise. . . ." "Just a moment," shouted the other oth-er one, "don't go too far. I think I see smoke from a ship!" An executive of the Scientific Research Re-search Development Board had an appointment with Prof. Oppenhef-mer, Oppenhef-mer, the scientist who had so much to do with completing the atomic bomb. . . . Oppenheimer was to have registered at the Statler Hotel In Washington. . . . But the caller was told that he was not registered, regis-tered, and he wasn't. . . . This is why. . . . While the phone operator kept getting important calls for Oppenheimer Op-penheimer he was seated in a far corner of the foyer patiently waiting wait-ing for a room! ... In any other country he would have been given a hotel or a palace. What dopes! Sportsman R. S. Evans brought this back from California. ... A street corner prejudist screamed: "There ain't enough room in this country fer furriners and us Amur-ricans." Amur-ricans." ... To which a lumbering giant among the listeners interrupted: interrupt-ed: "Yessiree, especially pale-face foreigners!" The squelcher was Jim Thorpe, American Indian Olympics star. Nething New Under the Sun Dept: Bob Berryman of the WOR news room has traced the origin of "wolf" as applied to current usage. ... In the Decameron of Boccaccio, a king with a roving eye was accused ac-cused of being a "wolf." The Decameron De-cameron stories were published in the 16th century. . . . This king wanted a man's two daughters as his wives and the father intoned: "I firmly believeth you to be a king and not a ravening wolf!" John W. Raper, a Cleveland paragrapher for decades, has put some of his peppigrams between eovers. The title is: "What This World Needs." ... We liked these especially. . . . The theater box office of-fice counts the cash, not the applause. ap-plause. . . . Justice is what we get when the decision is in our favor. Quotation Marksmanship: John W. Raper: Success has made failures fail-ures of many men. . . . Anon: One man with courage names a major-! major-! Ity. . . . Doris Keane: Romance ' and marriage are two different j things. . . . Voltaire: Satire lies 1 about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when , they die. . . . Alan Sands: He's one j of those ln-the-nobodies. . . . Wilson I Mlzner: There is something about 1 a closet that makes a skeleton terribly ter-ribly restlesi. . . . Helen Slmi: Unplanned Un-planned ag a hiccup. |