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Show 1 1 Jotes of an Innocent Bystander: Commander Joseph W. Golinkin, well-known artist of sporting prints and now commodore of a section of the Pacific fleet, writes that he had cleared through censorship a piece he had written for a New York newspaper news-paper on naval operations there. He says that he was amazed at the few changes made in his copy, but one floored him. The censor changed the word "debutante" to "society girl." The Press Box: Cynics pointed to l'affaire Syria to illustrate their sordid sor-did opinions that an international organization or-ganization is useless. On the contrary, con-trary, that squabble proves the necessity ne-cessity of it. So that such differences differ-ences can be solved by men sitting around a table instead of soldiers in foxholes. ... A Boston gazette quips: "Jap leaders are sighing for a leader like Josef Stalin and if they' make any false moves in his direction, they're likely to have one." Quotation Marksmanship: W. E. Barrett: Nobody ever sees a city go to sleep; it shuts itself up and drops off to slumber an inch at a time. ... I. Panin: Pessimists are people who, having the choice between two evils, will choose both. . . . Mag Dige: Money will buy a dog, but it will not buy a wag of its tail . . . Damon Runyon: Nobody on Broadway gives a darn about a million dollars. They merely want to live like millionaires. ... I. Prima's suggestion for Hitler's headstone: head-stone: A corporal in the last war a corpse in this one. . . Anon: Europe: Eu-rope: A collection of countries with chips on their shoulders and none on the table. . . . Sign at Paul's in the Adirondacks: Honeymooners treated with studied neglect. . . . H. L. Mencken: The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you! Attention Mr. and Mrs. United States: Washington: At the very same time Congress is considering raising its own salary, a Congressional committee com-mittee has recommended that salaries sal-aries be reduced for other public servants. ... If it becomes law, the following loyal Americans will get a cut in pay: The undersecretaries of State and Treasury; Mr. Noonan (Commissioner of Internal Revenue) Reve-nue) ; the Director ol the Budget, Mr. Bell (of all people), who handles han-dles the money; and one of the most popular of public servants J. Edgar Ed-gar Hoover, Director of the F.B.I. In effecting laws for their own deserved de-served raise in pay our Congress should set an example for other underpaid un-derpaid public servants. Salzburg, Germany: Emil Jan-nings Jan-nings (former Hollywood German movie actor) is now beating his breast protesting that he never was a Nazi. Although Emil Jannings took part in Goebbels' propaganda. Jannings Jan-nings (over the radio this week) brazenly sent his greetings to movie director Ernst Lubitsch. He described de-scribed Lubitsch as his friend. This is to offer the United States Immigration Immi-gration Department a witness against Emil Jannings if he tries re-entering our country . . . The witness wit-ness (Ernst Lubitsch) will testify that Emil Jannings is a liar and a Nazi if you will pardon the redundancy. redun-dancy. Los Angeles: Generals Patton and Doolittle were received by their fellow - Californians with open arms. . . . Typically, these great American generals gave all the credit to their men. . . . It resulted (also in typical American reaction) in even greater public admiration and affection for themselves. . . . Hundreds of thousands of soldiers sol-diers have given Generals Pat-ton Pat-ton and Doolittle the regulation Army salute from the shoulder. . . . Millions of American civilians civil-ians today are giving Patton and Doolittle a salute from the heart. Washington Ticker: Adolph Berle, Jr., our Ambassador to Brazil, has flown back to Washington to report in person to the President. That's how serious matters are in Brazil because of our peculiar romance with Argentina. ... Ed Pauley is slated to be U. S. Reparations Commissioner Com-missioner for Japan after F-J Day. . . . The Japs will pay for Pearl Harbor from the pocket as well as through the nose. . . . Bob Han-negan Han-negan plans to muster the full strength of the next presidential campaign in the 1946 Congressional fight. . . . LaGuardia is still a dark-horse dark-horse candidate to repeat himself as Mayor of N. Y. Former drama critic and naval officer of-ficer John Mason Brown will inherit the late Ernie Pyle's spot on Ernie's syndicate. . . This reporter has sent an entire col'm of "information" (on the Langford murder case) to Dist. Att'y Hogan of N. Y. . . . O.W.I.'s psychological warfare section which prepared the leaflets dropped by B-29s to Japs has been cut to shreds by Congress. It may mean that one too many American soldiers will die fighting Japs who might otherwise oth-erwise have surrendered by believing believ-ing the O.W.I. |