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Show pi m Ma Memos to Editors Marquis Childs, columnist on foreign and other important matters, mat-ters, writes: "Most interested in your comment. Seems to me vital to galvanize congress and the country coun-try into taking those steps that will prevent war from becoming inevitable" inevita-ble" . . . Mark Sullivan, Tom Stokes, Maj. George Fielding Eliot and many others are talking openly to the people but Sec'y Marshall says the people shouldn't be aroused into any passion . . . He added things "are very, very serious and should be given cold calculation" calcula-tion" . . . Quite so, but someone has to tell the people the facts. That's why we have newspapers. I Carole Landis' statement that she was splitting from her husband is a belated confirmation. She denied de-nied it often to me and now declares "she hasn't seen him for months and that he doesn't respond to her phone calls" . . . The fact is that her next husband. If and when, will be Rex Harrison, the British star. Suggest sending a reporter to see Henry Wallace to ask him If he recalls this: The scene: The Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago . . . The time: January 18, 1948 . . . "If the Democrats run Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, I'll step out," he said to Bart Crum, the FDRepublican of San Francisco . . . Eisenhower, by the way, is regarded as a Democrat "in the FDR tradition" ... He is a registered Democrat! Demo-crat! Quip of the Week: Garry Moore and Erskine Johnson witnessed a movie and later wondered about the star's age . . . "Oh," interrupted Mrs. Moore, "I guess she's about 40" . . . "Now how can you really tell?" queried Ersk. "Bekuz," was the retort mee-yowww, mee-yowww, "she's starting to pat herself her-self under the chin instead of on the back." The Aristocrats: Jack Benny tops the new Hooper coast rating with 42.1 . . . McGee and Molly are second with 32.1 . . . Bob Hope is third with 31.6 and Andrew Jer-gens Jer-gens ran out of the money (fourth place) with only 29. From the front page of the World Telegram: "It's no secret Mr. Forrestal and joint chiefs of staffs are worried sick at the imminent im-minent threat of war. Since 1915, all planning, universal military training, stockpiling, et cetera, has been on a long-range basis. It assumed war was 10 to 15 years off. Now the military is thinking in terms of immediate mobilization. mobiliza-tion. Man About Town: Four U. S. subs are on the way to Turkey. They left San Francisco "to train Turkish naval crews," as the saying say-ing goes . . . President Truman to John Gunther, the correspondent-author: "If Ike wants to run, why doesn't he tell me?" . . . The Alabama governor engaged a press agent for that kissing spree here . . . Henry Luce, mag publisher, will come out for Vandenberg. Mrs. Dan Mahoney, wife of a Miami publisher, has a partnership partner-ship with Mrs. Albert Lasker, wife of the millionaire . . . They purchased pur-chased a huge western ranch "as a refuge from bombs" their friends report . . . The ranch is located not far from a military objective where atomic tests are made! What Mr. Truman Actually Screamed about radio commentators commenta-tors Pearson and WW cannot be printed in full ... No editor would let you . . . McGrath and Gael Sullivan Sul-livan called at the White House to urge him not to run but never got to it, because of the Prez's outburst of gutter profanity. . "I heard those two last night," he said in part, "and I'm going to run to show THEM!" (Takes one to know two). A National Weekly is readying a revelation on Republeader Joseph Martin. It will allege that the Attle-boro, Attle-boro, Mass., newspaper publisher Is worth between 24 and 3 million bux . . . Congressman Martin must have the golden touch, since it must be presumed he made it Between session of congress in the last 20 years ... A former Massachusetts political figure, now a judge, was the target of an accuser's finger (pointed directly at him) in an alleged al-leged extortion. Whatever the merits mer-its of the charge, not a single agency could be aroused into Investigating the matter. Things to worry about: Gerald h. K. Smith has been silent recently re-cently because he's been seeck. Almost died, too . . . So he says in his latest dodge for "funds" via his newsletter ... "I had been given a dose of arsenic poisoning," it wails, "either in Wichita, Kas., or Denver" . . . Was on his big fat derriere a month, and he is too weak (but mended) to write details . . . Arsenic and Old Lousy! j |