The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-02
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"Gee, John, she Said, you're awf'ly sweet, but can'tl"
 Gunther felt little silly about being turned down that way, since he was merely trying to be a pal to gal far from home. Later he learned why she couldn't accept. Monday Virginia had an ap- pointment with guy named Win ston On Tuesday she had 8 date with feller named Beaver brook and on Wednesday with some folks named George and Elizabeth.
 Ted Lewis is telling the silly about the fellow in the subway who mo- ticed the bloke next to him reading 8 newspaper upside down.
 Isn't that hard" he asked, read ing the paper upside down?"
 "Why?" was the high-hat retort. Do you think its eaSy?"
 When Glare BOothe, the play wright-book writer; was in Europe for a few weeks she came forth with a good tome called Europe in the Spring" Not long ago Clare and her groom went to China for three weeks, and then announced that she would do a book about it whats Clare going to call her three-week trip?" Some one asked her publisher, "Tnside China'?"
 'No," giggled the publisher, "Tn- side Asia'l"
 Why Historians Go Wrong Dept: After the Roosevelt Churchill meet ing at sea, one of the weekly news digests reported that FDR and Winston met for five days and not three days as reported almost every- where.
 A Washington co1yunist told us that five days" is wrong-"they met for three days" How do you know?" we asked the colyumer. "You weren't there!" That's right" he said, "hut got that fact from a feller who happened to be on the trip-Averill Harrimanl" .. Back in New York we confronted the magazine man "Why did you report it was five days" we asked, when Averill Hartman who was there ought to know?" {. T don't know anything about MT. Harriman's accuracy" was the re- ply, "but we got our info from one who was also on the trip-FDR's doctorw
 Walter Duranty, the war corres- pondent, Irene Winston, the actress, and George Jean Nathan, the actor, were playing The Word Game when Guaranty called revenge" "In what sense," inquired MT. Nathan, do you mean it?"
 "rn the sense," said Guaranty, "of doing something to someone be- cause he or she did something to you. Getting even"
 "Sweet!" called out Irene, who is just as.
 "Marriage!" echoed Nathan, who is still an old maid.
 John Gunther's new book (due shortly) has been named Inside Latin America by M. Schuster, the publisher, suggested: 'The Almanac de Gunther" 7. Colyumist Bites Dog Dept: For the first time in Journalistic history, we think, a New York colyumer (sued for libeD not only won the case = but $28 "a cab fares from the complai:ltiff tee hee Mack Gordon, the song-writer, is doing a book on his common -Sense diet. He calls 1t: "The First 100 Pounds Are the Hardest" Gordon went iron, 322 to 220 in one year-by eating Louise Atw1ll overheard a catty crack about herself "Where'd you get that?" she fanged rOver the Sourgrape Vine?"
 TalluIah Bankhead is starring in Her Cardboard Lover" on The Barn Time Chums testify that she never looked so well = and that keeping sane hours for 8 year-has revived That Spark.
 Tallulah, however, is still indif- ferent to what others think and say of her. As indifferent as she was a dozen seasons ago when a prudish interviewer asked: Would you call yourself a pure woman?'
 "Yes," said Bankhead, I'm as pure as the driven slush."