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Show m The Broadway Lights: The Late Watch: Billboard list! 24 radio programs which cost sponsors spon-sors a total of $2,500,000 (in free gifts to contestants) in 1046. Only one of the 24 shows Is In Hooper't inner circle of the first 15. . . . After six months William Schiller (presl-dent (presl-dent of the Polka Dot guild) picked Gink Todd (a Cedar Rapids J G.r Friday) to inherit the crown of Chill Williams, his former "trademark. Eyewitnesses say La Todd does more for polka dots than polka dots did for Chill Wms. . . . Oh. Now Looka Here Dept.: A show girl at Vanity Fair calls herself June July. Anything to get into a column. . . . Strange Broadway Romances: A rich playboy bridegroom used to be his mater-in-law's fella! . . . "he 75-year-old widder of a millionaire is wooing an author 30 years her junior. Oh, you kid. . . . Casting note: Theatre Inc's. new play, "The Big People" means just that. It is hiring actors who are at least six feet two. . . . Tito Guizar's newest way of saying goodnight to a heel: "Have a happy drop dead!" Trls Coffin, whose eye and ears represent many Americans in the senate press gallery, has a new book doe soon, titled: "Missouri Compromise." The title was selected by the publisher publish-er because the book fs about what, happened In Washington since'FDR's death. Much or the : scene In Washington these last I two years, the author empha- sizes, "has been sad, tragic and absurd." 1 Times Square Smalltalk: Local ' girls shudder when they discuss New York's most terrifying wolf-one wolf-one of our famed naval war heroes! . . . Jock Whitney may announce ; any week his plans to erect the ! world's most luxurious racetrack in j Queens. . . . Very ex-senator R. R. i Reynolds is starting a law office in Washington as "a specialist In gov- ernment departmental practice." ' whatever that is. . . . Sudden Thawt: The only thing that nobody has tried to fix at Madison Square Garden is the air-conditioning system. . . . Will SpruiUe Braden replace Gen. Walter Wal-ter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow? These days the pest is equivalent to being second tcp man In the state department. . . . Regarding Re-garding safety in aviation circles. 1 remember this fact: It took the railroads rail-roads 65 years to reach the high safety mark the airlines reached in their Initial 20. J j Midtowo Vignette: They told j os they brought It from Ilolly- j j wood, where a swank spot ! ' solved the matter of "who pays I I the check?" . . . This little rd- get discourages arguments and It la fun, besides. ... It is m souvenir bottle opener. ... In ! the form of a miniature hand. j ... The Index finger Is pointed. j j When the cheek Is presented j I you put the thing on the table j snd spin It. . . . And the person 1 to whom the finger pcrnts j I pays. I Street Scene: There's young- ! stcr in the window of a peanut shop ' on Broadway at 4Glh. His job is to weigh peanuts on scale. . . . Ho puts on quite bit of pan-I pan-I tomlmicry measuring the nuts, de- ! scribed by enchanted passersby ss ' I "the neti." ... He really is a Chap- I lin In the Harry Lnngdon manner, I If you know your show business, ! that Is. . . He convulses crowds which clog the sidewalk watching I ! him. . . . For all I know, by the I time you read this, he won't be i I there but on his way to Hollywood, i . . . Newest big spender about mid-town mid-town Is a Puerto Kican named Nino. Leaves a trail of big tips (a mile j wide) nightly. . . . Ann Sheridan now sloops on a special glass mat- j tress! Fireproof and no allergy, or ' somothm'. . . . Lucille Bull spurned her new car because Its bright red clashed with her orange hair. The Intelligentsia: Alma Archer. Mirror beauty editor, has a book on what women think of men. due in the spring. The title is: "Ah-Mcn." Ralph IngersoU has retired to his farm to write three novels. . . , Clare Luce will reveal the most Intimate details In a mag on how she found religion. She also is finishing a new book at her plantation. Appleton will publish. . . . Jean l.ibnian IMoek -has a piece called "Do They Gyp You When You Soil Your Jewelry?" ! In the Feb. Good Housekeeping. She did the research with borrowed gems. . . . Pr. A. J. Crotiin. the author. Is applying for U. S. citi.-rn-ship. j The Washington Ticker: The visit of President Truman South of the Border is more than a salute to the new president of Mexico. U s out-nnd out open 1-1,1 to strengthen the hand of the Mexican government against communistic Inilllmtion t Central America. . . . n, p, i,,.ln pollov soon w ill lc n thing ,,f u,r Mr. Byrnes' stiiT policy Iowa,, I sla (oddly enough! become (ho Uepul.lican potion 1-w secretary of slate (backed by Mr Truman! relying on a ilo concilia lory nihil, de. I |