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Show Bigtown Murals: All the Broadway daytime crowds gathering to watch a pussycat vainly stalk the pigeons who roost on the Iceland marquee . . . The dollar bill in the finance window near Columbus Colum-bus circle, with the caption: "I Want to Be a Loan" . . . The dignified looking man who ankles up and down Fifth avenue playing with one of those trick bow-ties. It lights up when girls approach. (Oh, you kid!) . . . The sign in the men's room of a 10th avenue lunchroom: "Employee! "Em-ployee! must wash their hands." Pencilled below is: "And it wouldn't do the customers any harm either!" . . . The car in front of the Plaza with the Connecticut plates tagged SONG. It's Alec Templeton's . . . The oomphy cashier in the 60th and Madison newsreel glass-cage box office, who gets umpteen offers daily that start with: "Baby, why don'tcha lemme take you away from all this?" John Barrymore (once called John Barleycorn) was appearing In a flop play. The critics devastated devas-tated it and him. He came to the second performance cold sober. "I told you," roared the producer, pro-ducer, "not to show op drunk!" "If I wasn't," he said, "do you think I'd show up?" Midtown Vignette: Where else but In Our Town could you find this hilarious scene. He's a beer executive execu-tive . . . Eecently remarried . . . Very young bride . . . When he gets tired so does his face ... A daily mud pack facial at the Waldorf barber bar-ber shop is a ritual . . . Very restless rest-less . . . Can't stay in the chair or "un-lax" waiting for the black-green mud on his puss to dry ... So he walks up and down the place impatiently im-patiently . . , Glaring at you through his ridiculous-looking beauty treatment treat-ment ... He also has a bath towel draped around his conk turban style . . . Scares the bejabers outta ya . . . The big howl came the other day . . . Our Hero was stomping up and down in his wild get-up (turban and mud pack) when in came two U.N. delegates from Arabia attired smartly in American apparel. They took one lnok at him and got hyster-JcaL hyster-JcaL Soldiert of the Press Probably the fighttngest publisher of all was E. W. Scripps. He battled corruption in Cincy for three years before getting results. His free swinging style of journalism hatched many dangerous foes. As a result Scripps had bodyguards and was always al-ways well-armed. He was involved in many street fights and usually gave a good account of himself. Scripps was handy with his dukes and never ducked a bare-knuckle challenge. Of course, James Gordon Bennett fought some of the fiercest brawls in journalistic history. Nothing Noth-ing could stop the whip of his indignation indig-nation from snapping. As a result, Bennett and his family were the victims vic-tims of such unspeakable slander his wife and children were forced to leave the U. S. and live in Europe. But Bennett remained and continued tossing bombshells. Editor Henry Watterson once said: "It's not enough for a newspaper to report a fight it must fight on the right side." At Bradley's one night a diplomat, diplo-mat, Just back from Washington said: "The 6tate department is running our Middle East with a firm hand." "Zatio?" snapped Ted Mack. "What's the name of the firm-Standard firm-Standard Oil?" Appeasement is taking a lacing . . . Our diplomats have planted wet kisses all over Perons two faces, and what did they reap? At the Pan-American huddle in Bogota, Argentina has been attempting to gum up the works by whizzing monkey-wrenches. The other day Peron'i mouthpieces denounced proposals for inter-American collective action against communism! In other words Fascist Peron wants to make it easier for Communists to continue crawling, and the state department's excuse for embracing Argentina was that it would help us stop the spread of communism. The difference between be-tween a Nazi, a Fascist and a Communist Com-munist is the difference between skunk, a snake and a rat. Sounds ia the Night: At Eddie Condon's: Con-don's: "She's one of the zeros in society's so-ciety's 400" ... At the Penthouse: "Love is what has you coming and going nuts!" ... At Garrison's: "She has a darling kisposition." . . . In the Stork: "He handed her his usual routine." ... At Lisa Kirk's: "It's the old story. Once upon a two-time." Item: "Max Schrneling denied entry en-try into U. S." Let him cool his heils. Headline: "RUSSIA AND FINLAND FIN-LAND SIGN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE PACT." That means the Russians will do all they can to help the Finns help the Russians. |