The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-06
NOTES OF Al NEW YoRKER.


 The cover of Life dated March 7th features the loveliness of Mar guer.te sharp, 2l-year old "typi- cal Civil Service Girl" To get the photograph the mag assigned its ace lensrnan, Eliot Elisofon to the Capital :. He reasoned that the Army or Navy buildings would be the most likely places to find a pretty worker because so many girls had been hired for defense jobs {. He wasted an entire day looking for "the girl"-without finding one pretty enough Discouraged, he spent all next day over at the Navy edifice-with no better luck By this time Eliot was worried. Deadline was nearing and he had ckewed his last fingernan |. Along came Q marine . Eliot asked him if he knew some attrac- tive Civil Service girl T sure do," said the marine, you don't think walk through the corridors for exercise, do youP" |. He de rected the photogger to the desk of the lovely Miss Sharp. stenog- rapler in the Division of Supplies Ss Accounts in the Navy Dept :. And the irony of itl !. .. She is a native of Hollywood, California, where nobody ever bothered to take her picture It's 8 safe bet the Moyietown talent scouts will battle for her on March 8th.
 Wall Streetcrs who are telling how tough things are going in the market would have you believe that in the Stock Exchange coat-room there is sign reading: Please don't toss lighted cigfiarettes on the floor-the poor broker staild- ing next to you may be barefooted"
 Harry Harper was star pitcher in the American League many years ago In @ series game with the Giants. Pancho Snyder hit a home run which knocked Harper out of the box and out of baseball Soon after, Harper retired from the national game and entered business ., one day recently Harper vis- ited the Giants training camp in Miami and again met Snyder, who is a coach Harper ran over to Pancho and embraced him affec. tionately, saying: T can never thank you enough for hitting that homer which knocked me out of baseball" A rookie laughed and said to 8 veteran player: "Get Q load or those guys kissing each other! :! thought baseball was mans game" "You don't get the drama of that scene" unused the vet, who was familiar with the story. If snyder hadn't hit @ home run off Harper in a series game a long time ago, Harper might also be a coach, instead of a millionaire"
 Tho Billboard tells about the bring -down suffered by Joe Reich- man, the orchestra leader .. One of those hecklers danced up with his girl to where Joe was con- ducting at the keys and inquired: DO you play the piano like Eddy Duchln?" Pardon the short answsr," indifferently said Joe, "but I don't!" "
 well" niftied the heckler, '"why don't you practice?"
 In Reuben's . group of Broadway farers were gabbing about Moss Harts visit to Q psychiatrist--and how they resulted in Hart's cur rent click, Lady in the Dark" "TIe sure was taking a big chance" someone observed, suppose the psychiatxist had told Moss that he was crazy what then? It would have ruined a brilliant playWright's career, take 1t from me-"
 Not ct all," insisted Henny Youngman, Moss could have gone straight home and written another Time of Your Life'!"
 The N. Y. Sunday Times pulp Nshed a series of warnings by Churchill--Warnings that weren't taken seriously a few years ago, but which have come true .... The same warnings that Americans are called warmongers for shouting To hear some appeasers argue things you get the idea that everything c. Washington did was wrong and everything B. Arnold did was right A New York paper ran ex- cerpts from Berlin gazettes which contended: "The United States is really 6 German country and the Nazis will eventually take 1t over" That New York paper bet ter be careful It will be called names by the asstriches.
 The March 3rd Time under "Avia- tion" reports the genius of Bill Lear Bill, 1t appears. left the savants at the Mass. Institute of Technology speeches. with his "in- cisive understanding of their ex- periments with a new radio tube"
 The more 90. since Lear had