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Show Things You Knetv All Along: (But which dopey me. iusl found out.) President Truman is not ill. but the Army has completed plans for a Presidential suite at Walter Reed Hospital. FDR and other .8ovt official, of-ficial, invariably used the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Since Mr Truman served in the Army (in World War I), the Army has no intention in-tention of turning over its pr ze alumnus to Naval medicos should he need a doctor. (Mr. Truman discovered that trying to be a mid-dle-of-the-roader means you gei slugged from both sides.) In Berlin the Nazis (civilians too) gather in front of U. S. PXs and beg the Yanks "for chawklott, choon-gum" choon-gum" and other goodies, even cig-gies cig-gies The Americans often share with them. When the Nazis are a safe distance away they make "cracks," thumb to nose, etc. Nurses just back also report the Nazis practically dare the Yanks to hit them with their vehicles or bikes as they cross streets. But when they see the Russians coming in cars, they flee. Because the Russkys run . over them! (They respect THEM! ) I ' "Fala at Hyde Park" is the title of an unusual short released on FDR's birthday, Jan. 30th. Six thousand of the 82nd Airborne Division (who marched up Fifth Ave. the other day) will re-enlist. During the war ammunition was manufactured in the House of Lords, London. Believe it or not, but there is even a lobby in Washington to prevent the gov't from establishing national cemeteries in each State. (Cemetery (Ceme-tery associations are behind the lobby.) lob-by.) Telephones Immaculate (The Hygienic Hy-gienic Phone Service of N. Y., Inc.) is a service which disinfects your phones twice weekly. A New Yorker York-er borrowed the idea from London, which is supposed to be decades behind be-hind New York. Denver has a law which prohibits anyone from photographing a woman wom-an in her bathing suit without her consent. (How about without her bathing suit?) , It's against the law in England to marry your mother-in-law. The howl of wolves at night is really a love call. A Marine never wears pants or carries a gun. Marines wear trousers trous-ers and they never call a rifle a gun. (Such airs!) Pawnshops use three brass balls as a sign because they were part of the coat of arms of the Medici family, the first famous pawnbrokers. pawnbro-kers. (My hockshop told me.) The moon is gradually applying brakes to the earth's spin. As a result, the day is now lengthening at the rate of one-thousandth of a second a century. (Fevvensakes!) Napoleon invented the Income tax to pay for wars. Midtown Novelette: A noted attorney at-torney revealed this in the Blue Angel. An-gel. A mother and a daughter were threatened with eviction from a 72nd St. apartment. . . . Because the neighbors complained of the girl's vocalizing. "She's always practicing!" practic-ing!" said the landlord. . . . Their lawyer argued the owner into withdrawing with-drawing the dispossess notice and warned him: "Some day you'll pay to hear her sing!" . . . They moved anyway, because the neighbors were so mean That was 3 years ago. ... If those neighbors do not know what became of that girl-they can pay to find out at the Met Opera House . . . Patrice Munsel! The Late Watch: Clark Gable's steadiest companion is Virginia Grey. The reports Unking him with thisand that gal are strictly "flu. ers. ' Big furore in Washington over Gen. Ike's shakeup at the Pc" !aT,,..Th,ey're the lads "0 flew Jetf tamely because socially ambitious wives "couldn't live any-where any-where else." . . . Hotels w'u be jammed until next December vvim! out a let-up Conventions, buyers, -re in ' gody. . . . GrouchAarV Thtr" M.nam, has switched U u mag (a, copy gal, to nn "e as cub reporter, already. P Marines navlnV?" V'?ndegrift of the 50th St 1 ' ,S,b0lUS Shi"ed on star, another yU0dfH"riln' the movie direct 1 S,,11'''" |