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Show llliLit fi 1 r ......miL-j Midnight Memos: Man About Town: The biog of former for-mer Police Commissioner Valentine (by a newspaper man) will have several bitter attacks on former Police Po-lice Commissioner Enright and Jimmy Jim-my Walker. . . . Liquor insiders fear that Indiana will be voted dry. . . . Medicos now warn you about taking benzedrine for reducing or for any other reason. They say you can injure in-jure yourself permanently. . . . Transcripts on the recent wiretapping wiretap-ping (of the principals) in the Alvln Paris gambling fix case confused con-fused some of the newspaper men at first. All the scripts ended with the exclamation, "By Jove." It wasn't until the trial that they learned the reason for the sign-off. The lad who did the listening In for the gendarmej (and brought In the evidence) Is a cop named Joe Jove. The United Nations at Lake Success has had to cut personnel, person-nel, for lack of money. . . . - The Irony of It! A mere fraction frac-tion of any major nation's military mili-tary budget would be more than sufficient. ... In short, the world Is pinching pennies for peace at the same time it is straining every financial sinew in preparation prep-aration for war. The epitaph for the 20th cen- tury may well read: Billions for War and Hate Not One Cent for Trust and Hope. Washington Ticker: Touch of Irony In Washington: The pins and passes used to Identify the secret service (in the senate gallery) are redl . . . Have our intelligence services checked the report that the French representative on MacArthur's council, coun-cil, General Pechkoff, is really -the son of the great Russian writer, Maxim Gorki? . . . The four peace treaties before the senate are obsolete obso-lete before they are even ratified. . . . The great, big, beautiful investigation inves-tigation of the TJ. S. Maritime commission com-mission is ripening into full and odorous bloom. . . . Poor Henry Cas- I sidy (one of our favorite commentators) commen-tators) made the fluff of the day on the News of the World menu. Hi. ackchelly said: "Foreign Monster Bevin." Touch of Irony: The straggle strag-gle over Greece might result in another global war yet Greece's population is less than New York City's and the whole country is as large as North Carolina. Signs of the Times: Bargains are coming back. The houseboat sitting on the corner of 52nd and 6th now is marked down to only $5,900. . . . Sixty-cent haircut signs are showing up again in many barber shops. . . . Cabbies report their biz is oil 40 per cent. Then howcum you still can't get a keb, hardly almost? ... Irving Irv-ing Berlin, the poor songwriter, netted net-ted only $650,000 (after taxes) in 1946. . . . "The Anniversary Waltz" (from the Jolson flicker) is the first waltz to make the Hit Parade, they say, in many years. . . . Howie's now gives you flavored toothpicks. Such airs. . . . Some employment agencies are sending wealthy widows wid-ows and dowagers on assignments as baby-sitters. Breaks the loneliness, loneli-ness, etc. . . . Sudden thawt: They're reviving everything on Broadway except Broadway. Some locals were wondering why so many returning vets are bitter. . . . iMaybe," said one, "it's because the war has changed things." "Most likely," said an ex-G.I., "It's because the war hasn't." The Norwegian ambassador stated that the Norwegian government has no objection to Kirsten Flagstad, the opera singer now in the U. S., becoming be-coming an American citizen. ... To the men and women of the United States armed forces: Please do something about this woman, who before and during the war was not on our team. . . . Kirsten Flagstad entertained the Quislings after they invaded her native land. ... A voice which could lift itself in song amid the screams of torture of its own country certainly can't mean much when it swears allegiance to the American flag. ... Of course the Norwegian government has no objection ob-jection to her becoming an American Ameri-can citizen! . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her. Headline: "Four Hundred Million Acres of V. S. Land Vacant." Va-cant." And four million vets and their families need a place to live. Sounds in the Night: At Leon & Eddie's: "Roses- are red. Vi'lets are blue. There's one April Fool's Day but so many of you" ... At the Embassy: "Everyone ean become a success, but it doesn't ! become everyone." ... At Gil- more's: "One thing you can depend ! on in the envious the higher you get, the lower they hit." ... At Yank Sing: "He never worries about money, especially if he owes it." . . . ! At the Glass Hat: "Since I met her I stopped drinking and started taking tak-ing dope." i |