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Show .lH,PlavitiS the Portable: fdway Confetti: Waldorf hotel Trfsmoned to suites by for-barbefrtTflts for-barbefrtTflts are seorched by frconcealed weapons. No- b J T nne of the lawyers (on 42nd l85o s never in after 0 p. m.: 1 S the Harem waiting on tables. Not once, they say, has Mr. Tnmian sat on his new porch Too S from the street; self-con-ofoglers....APhiUySPend. making our bistros) is pertect-S pertect-S at all times by a female body-"rd! body-"rd! Her unique job is keeping K fttan being careless with t,p? jT-iggie and camera-gels. Hez t i hebit of tossing $50 bills. Sights Too Don't See From a Bus: The drug store at 56th and Madison which now features a mttitre d' for its sody fountain! Leads you to the fountain stool, helps you get seated, takes the order. . The Broadway infants' in-fants' shop called: "Babydash-ery." "Babydash-ery." . Charlie's bargain jtore on the lower East Side, which offers a lady's handbag on sale for only $200! . . . Sign in 47th street bookshop: "Wise Men Fish Here." They All Come Back: As a boy, Glenn Cunningham's legs were scarred horribly in a schoolhouse fire in Kansas. . . . Robert Allman of the University of Pennsylvania wrestling team was tagged "the most courageous athlete of 1933;" he was blind. . . . Bernard Baruch is deaf, but it doesn't bother him. To concentrate or doze, he just unhooks un-hooks his hearing aid. . . . Francis Parkman, one of the greatest historians, his-torians, was crippled. . . . Madame Curie had tuberculosis, was threatened threat-ened with blindness. Did she stop? , , . Infantile paralysis claimed the body of Sir Walter Scolt but not the spirjt, . . . Tuberculosis didn't dull the pen of Robert Louis Stevenson. . . . Beethoven wrote the music he never would hear. MANHATTAN HEARTACHES Cbostly lovers in an aged rendezvous . . . Return again to heed the golden sound And whisper of the love that once they knew . . . As they spread their magic carpet on the ground. Ghostly lovers meet to fan the flame , . , And linger for a while as sinners uill To bet their chips on life's romantic ro-mantic game . . . And spin the wheel to feel the gambler's thrill. Yet ghost-It ghost-It lovers tart as mortals do . . . Till evening breathes again her mystic themes And cloaks them in the haunted rendezvous ... To laugh and Ion and weave their gentle schemes ... Secrets are the things that lovers there . . . And there are quite a few to this affair! Andrew Cowans. Times Square Ticker: Investing in plays is risky enough to make a slot machine envious. However, the best bet appears to be musicals. musi-cals. About 40 per cent of the 1947-48 1947-48 season's, song-and-dance shows turned out to be money-makers. . . . Jean Tennyson's work for hospitalized hospital-ized vets is the talk of concert circles cir-cles Paris designers (of femme apparel) are studying Hollywood tyles. ' Their slipping is showing. -. locals moan "it's impossible" to eiport goods to Yurrop unless mor than a dozen people "are takra care of." (Elack market red tap:). Manhattan Murals: The Iceland Ice-land restaurant, Broadway Iand-mark, Iand-mark, which weathers all seasons. sea-sons. The eye-holding colored Photos of the eyefuls (in tho slw) in its windows. . . . The '"Morn 57th street shop (located (locat-ed in the center or dozens of ' wcond-hand fur places) which "J's (almost apologetically) in ' windows that it sells only ew fUrS. . . . Xhe movic the. r (the Elysee) which has a lass-enclosed section on the rostra noor-for Its more lanem) socially acceptable cli-nte!e. cli-nte!e. Hmf. The Big Show: The chorus and Jew-gels in the Ringling Bros. a SmM 3iley Cireus get as hi (down to $40) depending on number of productions they ap-32-w 'i? Thcy are &uaranteed a rorl ?son plus free board, wm and transportation (on tour). diVoned U T"el SleCp m alr"COn-car alr"COn-car : S government hospital vS;HPUrC.hased last vear d con-82-font ? traveli"g hotels. The (in pLS1,lver'enameled. streamlined th. c ghng red) sleepers resemble booking ' ' The only two York Under canvas are New r and Boston . . .. The cost to e the circus daily is $23,000. formi;'- ne of bridge's per-? per-? f, demands kleenex ardrcL ', ' 5' Pieces oi Rework in the costume depaft. Ham of clowns is Wil- nhn51a?rmer newspa- ls mad V p 1 8uSar candy olor grtanulated sugar with one cun ? Whirled nd heated. Lv S,Ugar makes 15 t0 2C Mt 1SWeather' fiVC t0 w'ilT ,r,ishtcnc by those ly we r at war. Only JJg who think we're at |