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Show H I Tt Man About Town What no gazette learned, when they published pix of Governor Fol-som Fol-som kissing Alabama model "Ben-nie" "Ben-nie" Shaw, was that she became "homesick" and flew back with him in his private plane . . . One of Tart's nieces, Cynthia Taft, flounces around the Vassar campus featuring a huge Wallace button . . . Ironically, the top Juke-box pet is Russia's "Sabre Dance." That there were over 60 Russian sabs all over the Pacifio was reported re-ported several months ago on a Sunday night broadcast . . . The navy didn't reveal the real story. They kept down the actual number to help your Insomnia. The Washington Ticker: Brookings Institute boys privately predict the end of the "sellers' market" soon. They note increasing small business flops and growing size of business inventories ... At Key West the Joint chiefs of staff were ready to ask for 22 billion extra! The budget people slugged it on the head. The U. S. senate is about to tear into the defense department. Republican leaders inquire: "If the Joint chiefs are sure we're not prepared, what became of that 11 billion?" The Eepubs also allege the three services "aren't eo-ordinated" and are fighting fight-ing appropriations "like Macy's bargain bar-gain hunters". . . Gen. Wild Bill Donovan has been so quiet he must be very active. The ageless Cong. Sol Bloom of N. T. has a spring to his stride, and he's 78. In the capitol a col-yumist col-yumist said: "You look fine. Hor do yon do it?" "Women," he said. "Women?" "1 stay away from 'em." New York's My Town: Where else could you extol the virtues of communism com-munism (as they do in Columbus Circle) Cir-cle) with cops standing nearby to protect speechmahers in case any temper got lost? ... A maniac kills a boy and wounds several ol his chums without getting lynched? . . . Gamblers can get away with "fix. tag" hockey, basketball and football games? ... A gangster's wife gets J30.000 funeral, and an ex-war vet can live in a $12.50 Waldorf-Astoria suite on a $63.50 salary? Too many citixens who claim the Russians don't know "the know-how of war" forget that non-stop hop two Euss pilots made in June, 1937, from Moscow to S. Cal., 6,662 miles In 62 hrs. and 2 mins. We don't mean the one in which two Russians were forced down at Vancouver. Now, from their siDerian Dases nearest our tip of Alaska, Russian bombers can reach N. Y. and Washington in considerably less time. The distance (via the North Pole great circle route) to Washington or New York Is less than 3,900 miles. The Russians have passed us in jet designs. They are on equal terms with us on bombers. bomb-ers. "Captured" Eskimos near the Bering Sea (26 miles from the Alaskan tip) are doing the tough building of fortifications for the Russians. Rus-sians. Scripps-Howard reporters in Washington reported that the Soviet has 100 full divisions. They have more than 150 from the satellite nations, na-tions, excluding their own four million mil-lion troops. Todd Russell knows a lad who has ft walk-on role In "Mr. Roberts," Rob-erts," the new hit. A walk-on Is when yon haven't any lines to read you're another hnnk of scenery. If yon had one word, they'd have to pay you money. Anyhow, the walk-on thespian had to dash out of a restaurant. "Sorry, I gotta do something for Henry Fonda," he panted. "Oh, si d do wit," scolded a gel at the' table. "What can Fonda do for you get you three more steps? The Cinemagicians: A memorable motion picture about Europe's displaced dis-placed children, called "The Search," wins the friendship of the heart by speaking the language of the conscience con-science . . . "April Showers" is frothy musical with Jack Carson and Ann Sothern ping-ponging the soap bubbles . . . "All My Sons" gives you an explosive drama that twists and burns inside you. E. G. Robinson's firecracker performance keeps it popping . . . "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" has the sturdy trouping of Cary Grant and Myrna hoy for its foundations and U well-furnished with guffaws . . . 'Tarzan and the Mermaids" again presents Mr. Torso swinging jauntily from bromide to platitude . gkewp Dept.: Att'n INS: A report will be presented to the U. N. in the near future, which (among other Items) will reveal that Arabian delegates dele-gates living in luxury at a 54th street hotel have all expenses paid by U. S. oil interests. A soldier we know who served with the occupation army In Germany Ger-many Just arrived at a nearby separation center. The poor guy doesn't know whether he's coming or going! |