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Show ! ! Vofes of a Neiv Yorker: The New York papers recently of-I of-I tered an article by Gypsy Rose Lee's 1 mother. The story was about Gyp-! Gyp-! Ey New Yorkers are familiar with the silly quarrel between these two . . Supposed to have started when Gypsy wrote articles for a magazine about her early career in which her mater was kidded a lot and unfrocked a little . . . Broad-wayites Broad-wayites later heard buzzing about mother and daughter getting to the point of name-calling. Once Gypsy received a telegram from her Mom, which warned that unless the two could get together about a certain matter she the i mother would "give" the story to the newspapers. "Look, Mom, don't be a fool, replied re-plied Gypsy," "don't give it to the papers. Sell it to them." Now Is probably the last time to recount this instance of the humorous humor-ous by-play that went on between FDR and Henry Wallace. When Mae West was suing Frank Wallace for divorce the papers were full of stories sto-ries headed "Mae West Charges Wallace Wal-lace Unkind to Her." The President scissored one out and sent it to the vice president with a note (in his own handwriting) reading, "Henry, is this the way to treat your women?" Ernie Pyle reported the incident of captured Nazi General von Schlie-ben, Schlie-ben, who squawked to Yank commanders com-manders about American photographers photogra-phers taking his picture without asking ask-ing permission . . . And how General Gen-eral Collins reminded Von Schlieben that in the United States there is a free press "and we in the army cannot stop our newspapers from printing the news and taking pictures." pic-tures." In Time (or Life) a few editions edi-tions ago, we read what the photographer photog-rapher said when Von Schlieben barked: "Oh, I am bored with you American photographers taking my picture." The American hocus-focus man (who understood German) snapped back: "And I'm bored taking tak-ing pictures of captured Nazi generals." gen-erals." This is the newest Russian gag overheard at the Madison Bar: "So Ivan Ivanovitch died gallantly in the midst of battle," sobbed Katerina , Mikhailovna Mikhailovitch. "You say he uttered my name with his last , breath?" 1 "Part of it," replied the returned soldier, "only part of it." j An ironic fact is that George M. Cohan never could scribble a sue- cessful ditty about baseball, the sport he loved so much. Cohan, as , all Broadway knew, was a Polo Grounds faithful. Yet the two songs he wrote about baseball were never performed more than a few tired times, even with John McGraw and I the Giants lending themselves to its 1 promotion. Yet Albert Von Tilzer's ' "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" i is as famous as the game itself, and 1 Von Tilzer saw his first baseball contest con-test only a short while back, after his tune had been played and sung for decades. "Take Me, etc.," was not the first baseball song ever written. In 1885 a ballplayer named Kelly was an idol up in Boston. A faithful fan scribbled a ditty tagged "Slide, Kelly, Slide." The three-word phrase became more popular than the song. A song was responsible for finishing finish-ing a baseball star's promising career ca-reer when it looked as though he might develop into another Hubbell or Walter Johnson. His name was Harry Covaleskie, and he was with Jie Phillies. One season he established himself 3y pitching against the Giants three times in five days (beating them in ill starts) and taking a pennant i ight from under their noses. The Siants, burned up, found out later 1 hat Covaleskie, as a kid, had trouped in amateur vaudeville sing-ng sing-ng "Silver Threads Among the Sold." One afternoon the following sum-nerCovaleskie sum-nerCovaleskie was hurling against 'he Giants when from their dug-out :ame the strains of "Silver Threads." The Giants kept this up all during that series, and other National Na-tional League clubs followed with the same ribbing . . . i six weekSi Co. valeskie was a nervous wreck The following year saw him fade from baseball completely. Despite the ODT's warnings against unnecessary travel, vacation vaca-tion travel is up 10 per cent. Apparently Ap-parently there are people who won't do anything to help win the war-even war-even if it means slaying home and doing nothing. A certain Now York State Senator. hn?H 8 nC,'V0US breWW KIWI a holiday ln a sanitarium, was pro-nounccd pro-nounccd honky-dooly llc ., UuriiiK the dobte. one of his o,,,h,. .ts. forgetting tho ,., , hhts temper and yelled: "You'Vc cite "our T diS'"":"'';i' '''li"' I 11,,ro w.ive,t it ,u1 saili. j I n prove I'm .,ae-.nv c. I |