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Show WALTER WINCHELL Around the European Beat I If you want to see the American foreign correspondents in Europe, you'll find them in the Savoy Grill in London, at 21 Rue de Berri in Paris, the American Press club in Berlin, the Park hotel in Frankfurt, the Hotel de la Paix in Geneva, the Grand Bre-tagne Bre-tagne in Athens and the Stampa Es-tera Es-tera in Rome. If you stand close enough to their elbows, the chances are they'll be talking about: The Norman Mailer best-seller, "The Naked and the Dead," which has the former war correspondents green with envy. The trained seals saw it all but left it to a GI to write the masterpiece. . . . The offhours literary activity of the American correspondents in Italy (everybody is writing a novel) since Lionel Shapiro (ex-CBS man in Rome) struck Hollywood gold with two books in a row. . . . The modesty of Homer Bigart who, despite the fact that he regularly scoops the pants off every foreign correspondent, is the most beloved guy in the business. busi-ness. . . . The talented toughness of Wes Gallagher, AP's Berlin chief, who has worn the same scowl practically prac-tically since birth. His nickname: Laughing Boy. Rita Hayworth, who spent most of August at Beaulieu (between Nice and Monte Carlo) driving herself around in a used French car which cost $900 new! . . . The story current cur-rent around the European embassies that Washington plans to use the platform of the U. N. General Assembly As-sembly to inaugurate a new "get tough" policy with Russia which will make Vishinsky's past diatribes sound tike a lullaby. . . . American Intelligence, which expects the Communists Com-munists to try to wreck the U. N. meeting in Paris. The growing exhaustion of our air force pilots who've been flying fly-ing the Berlin route since June 21. They see Yaks in their sleep as well as In the air. . . . Lt. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the "lift" commander, who made his reputation repu-tation by never asking his pilots to do anything he wouldn't do himself. Every few days he walks out to "the circle" like any second louie and flies a freight plane to Berlin just to see for himself how the thing is working. |