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Show 11 JSJ Man About Toicn: How Times Change Dept.: Dwindling Dwin-dling payrolls and no jobs are sending send-ing more vets back to school than ever; 1947 will be the most educated edu-cated year of all times. . . . Excerpt Ex-cerpt from Nevada: "Business here dropped terribly in all lines. Our bar fell off 100 per cent: likewise like-wise dining department. I am now sole owner and may become janitor jani-tor too. Hear it's quiet all over the country. For what reason I do not know." . . . Boston clergymen protested pro-tested the new dime fare there. They argue fewer people go to church on the Sabbath as a result. . . . Woolworth's on 44th and Broadway Broad-way now is oflering toy trains at $21. Dime store, eh? . . . Capitol economists predict a hot summer, preceded by a receded spring. In short, hold your government bonds. You'll need them more then, praps. Manhattan Murals: The Bowery Bow-ery jewel market (near Canal and Hester streets) which resells re-sells gems containing loving inscriptions. in-scriptions. Mementoes of dead romances. . . . The weather observatory ob-servatory atop the Times Bldg. tower. , , . The many old-law tenements on Tenth Ave. without with-out bathing facilities. . . . The kerrikters who haunt Union Square: A pushcart peddler who sells "magic" roots that are supposed to he love potions, and a turban'd gent who sells "prophecies" for a nickel. The Press Box: Marshall is the fourth secretary of state within two years. Apparently peace also has its casualties. . . . Can't figure out why that handful of pressmen (who stayed away for a few days, stopping stop-ping the Miami papers) didn't pause to think of this: Their stoppage didn't stop salaries of staffers or printers only newsboys and old men and women newsstand-keepers who took the shellacking. . . . An-' swer me this, If you can. Every police station in New York City features fea-tures two green lamps outside. But those at police headquarters aren't lighted at night. . . . For the first time in 12 years, the police commissioner com-missioner has the 40 reporters (at headquarters) all acting as his press agents. Rate him high. . . . Quote of the week: Bilbo's blast to news photographers: pho-tographers: "Don't you people have any ethics?" Beginning of the End Dept.: A Washington reporter said Taft "isn't the most photogenic aspirant for the '48 presidential nomination and that if he isn't more polite his pix may make him look sillier." Seems Taft and others were asked (by pho-togs) pho-togs) to stand a little closer for a shot, and he irritably barked: "You had better take the picture pic-ture as we are or don't take any!" The lads took a walk. Memos to the Editor: Stalin, Gromyko and Novikov were invited to attend or send representatives to the Report from the World Forum at Cleveland. Not one R.S.V.P.'d. . . . Have the He de France and other French liners been taken off their runs to rush troops to French Indo-China? . . . Publishers are rushing to secure the U. S. rights for Hermann Hesse's books. He's the Nobel prize winner in literature. A few weeks ago few knew his name. . . . Sarah Churchill's male lead In "When in Rome" (now being be-ing filmed there) is Tullio Carmin-ati, Carmin-ati, who quit the U. S. for "My Beloved Duce." (Remember Pearl Harbor?) . . . F. Sinatra and his ciggie sponsor will have it Renegotiated. Renego-tiated. . . . Insiders say "nothing to the Farley boom." . . . Nickel swindle case Jimmy Collins' cell was next to the nine men who escaped. es-caped. . . . Sophie Gimbel's boy. Jay, and Louise Jarvis have it bad. Been going steady for two nights now. Sallies In Our Alley: Andy Russell relays this Hollyweird conversation. One gal whispered: whis-pered: "I hear she's happily married." "I geddit," giggled another, "Separated, eh?". . . . Item: "Ex-Sen. Wheeler and Son Open Law Office. Firm name, 'Wheeler & Wheeler.' " ... In Songs, Dances and Monotonous Mon-otonous Sayings. Manhattan Murals: Ladies of the Evening (as they are laughingly called) strolling near the swankier 5th Avenue hotels some with dogs on leash. . . . The bracelets from Palestine worn by Jewesses the letters cleverly spell it this way: JerUSAlem. Quotation Marksmanship: .K. Montgomery: Surely love is deaf. The prettiest speech ever devised will not atone for a thoughtless act. . . . Faith Baldwin: What was between be-tween them was as exciting as firecrackers fire-crackers and as fragile as gossamer. gossa-mer. . . . J. W. Raper: When you have children of your own you will wonder how father could have been so patient. . . . J. M. Barrie: Her beauty was a poem nature had written writ-ten in her honor. . . . Ann Britton: She flashed her love to him in eye-talics. |