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Show Memos of a Girl Friday: Dear Mr. M.: This delightful Win-ttirop Win-ttirop Rockefeller story just came over the phone . . . The day his son was born (? Polyclinic Hospital) the young xil-lionaire xil-lionaire went up to a nervous parent-to-be and exclaimed: "Just had a boy! Have a cigar " . . . Congratulations," said the man, "l don't smoke cigars" . . . "The. have a cigarette" said Rock 't , V 'W1 IU but j said tnUtUow . . . "Jom me in drink?" asked Win.hrop . . . " don't imfc'6e, but thanks," said the chap . . . then fergoodnessakes, take something!" some-thing!" persisted Rockefeller, handing Vie stranger a (100 bill as he left. Have some nonsensorship: An adv. agency exec refused permission permis-sion to Walton Si O'Rourke to have their wonderful dowager puppet televised! ... Did you know that the gangster taken for a ride was married to a "name" singer? . . . Parents Magazine Just awarded Orson Welles' "Macbeth" the Medal Med-al of Special Merit. It will say in Its mag that the Italian critics' censure cen-sure of it was unjust, etc. . . . Disc Jockeys have to be careful how they spot Blue Barron's new ditty, "You Were Only Fooling." The other eve'g it was played right after a candidate's speech ... A national campaign Is due in the mags and papyrus "to make men corset-conscious" and hide their bulges . . . Your line about Nevada Smith wanting want-ing a stage role "as she Is tired of just walking around cafe floors looking beautiful" got a part for her. Where can I locate La Doll-puss? Doll-puss? OVERSEAS TICKER The International Set bears that King Zog, exiled monarch of a Communist-controlled nation, na-tion, has been ditched by Her Highness. Because of his yoo-hooing yoo-hooing ... Lady Evelyn Leslie will mary G. Mackworth-Young of the Welsh Guards . . . King Farouk of Egypt is having his Caddy made bullet-proof by a West 'Street (New York) Iron-smith Iron-smith . . . The Maharajah of Baroda (recently accused of squandering millions while touring) tour-ing) is missed by waiters on the Continent (and B'way) because be-cause he was the biggest tipper since Diamond Jim Brady ... Rome and Milan stay-up-Iates are agog over the romance of Flat magnate Gianni Agnelli and Pamela Churchill. Latest Lowdown onthe Nancy Choremi matter: The divorce plan (which she couldn't deny to reporters report-ers at the airport) will be filed in mid-winter at Alexandria, Egypt. He will charge desertion, despite the fact that she left him over a belle there . . . She will spend the fall at Casablanca with her diplomat diplo-mat father, then go to Alexandria to dwell with her mother-in-law! Several Texas oil men threw a party at El Borracho. It was highlighted high-lighted by a 4-foot cake decorated with sterilized gold coins. During the hub-bub a chorine-guest exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Migawd! I swallowed a gold piece!" "That's awright, gal," a Texan hurriedly assured her. "Thar's plenty plen-ty more in that cake." A British official was gabbing with Washington reporters about our finances. fi-nances. "By the way," said the Londoner, Lon-doner, "why do you chaps refer to it as folding money?" "Because," was the Retort Delightful, De-lightful, "it's the only thing that's kept England from foldlngl" Air Secretary Symington told the story of the super-sound pilot rocketing at over 900 miles per hour at a great altitude where "the sun looked like the moon and the stars were out in the black sky." "That was a terrific ter-rific experience," said the air force chief. "In that new world what could you have ben thinking think-ing about?" "Thinkiog'' was the unphoay reply, "how I'd get down!" May Craig, New England's gift to the While House press corps, recently got back from Berlin, where she flew with the Air Lift. A commentator inlervieu ed her about it over a Boston stutum. "What." he inquired, "was your big impression im-pression of our air lift?" "It sure surprised sur-prised hell otttta the Russians!" May adlibbvd. "Which is exactly a hat you just did to the F C. C," almost c'wked the fellow, pushing the nearest button. Manhattan Murals: Thousands of New Yorkers jamming 32nd Street (during lunch hour) to agonize over a canary frantically fluttering along a 2nd floor ledge of the Gimbel Bldg. . . . The eerie jungle sounds at night on Fulton street from Treffiich's animal warehouse . . . The night watchman at the Roseland bkig., garbed in pastel-hued trousers, bare tootsies in straw sandals and a fay bandana around his throat . . . The school kids on 5th Avenue gawking at a stately, dignified Hindu, end one Informing: "That's an Indian!" . , "Gwan," was the reply. "Where's his feddcrs?" Gen. Clay tells U. 8.' scribes In Berlin: "1 don't think war la Just around the corner' It's merely around the whaia darn globe. |