The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-07
Walter WincheII
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 Verne Marshall is grooming out loud because our State Department alegedly high-hatted Hitler's peace memo Marshall doesn'e men, ton that Hitlers word is notoriously worthless even among his own allies At any rate, Marshall took his grievance to the networks and blundered He sassed back at the editorial page of the Herald Tribune so violently that people went right out and brought that edi- tion-to read the shellacking Mar shall got When Verne has had a few more scraps perhaps he will know that it is pretty amateurish to mention the names an enemy calls you It not only gives those words circulation, but Marshall would be surprised how grateful people are to learn about hem.
 Col. Mccormick, owner of the Chi cago Tribune, has issued secret or ders to the staff to make no further mention of Robert E. Sherwoods play, There Shall Be No Night" nor of the Lunts, who star in it, at the Grand Theater Mccormick is said to be especially sore about the line in it which ironically sug- gests that Finland is as safe as the U. s. Y. The ghastly humor of the Situatino is that the Colonel frequently goes on the air and ros- trum to lecture on the Freedom of the Press =. The show is pack ing them in, anyhow.
 Before his departure to Vichy, Ad- miral Leahy was told of the activi- ties of a prominent American. You should know" he was told. that the Reich regards him as their Number One Enemy" =. !. Leahy replied: He should be told that in two weeks I'll be regarded as a candi- date for his rankl"
 Responding to recent emergency call of invasion, seven giant Ameri- can bombers came down at Croy- don, near London, after a nonstop transatlantic passage Are we in time" was the anxious query .. :. Yes" was the casual answer, "tea is just being served"
 Gloria Swanson is on her way to being the Wealthiest woman in the nation Her new business is financing refugee inventors, who ar rive nere with not much coin, but full of ideas-the one thing the NaziS cannot rob She bankrolls them for a percentage of the earn ings . Everything is on the up- and-up .. Her recent trip to South America was not pleasure jaunt, as she told the gazettes, but busi- ness trip to interest mine owners thero in her new alloy It is supposed to be much lighter than the stuff now used in planes-and much stronger. Her big packer is an American ambassador.
 One of the correspondents back from Europe brought this story, which he says was censored when he tyied to send it During one of Churchills appearances in Par lament, member got up and de- manded that Churchill explain why the R. A. F. did not bomb Berlin citizens as well as German military objectiveS The Prime Minister replied: T assure you nothing would give me greater plasure than to in- struct the R. A. F. to bomb the Wilhelmstrasse, but, unfortunately. with me business comes before pleasure"
 Tke other day the newspapers re- ported that military police were on guard at all ferries, bridges, ter minals and other arteries leading to and from Manhattan .. When re- porters checked with Fort Hamilton, tfe publicity officer there told them it was rehearsal for wartime maneuvers Actually, the pub licity dept was covering up the hysterical orders of the Deer of the Day-to capture trainee who escaped from the guardhouse.
 Funny thing, but Gone With the Wind,' the greatest grosser in the history of movies, was severe blow to the industry E. Of the approxi- mately $100000, 900 spent by the film fans years, "GWTW" grabbed $32.- .000-which left only a mere $68,- 100000 in the pot for other moom- pitchers.
 The day after Christmas, Magis- trate Pinto, sitting in case in- volving a Christmas tree peddler Gin Jefferson Market Court), made some pretty strong remarks about 'the Christmas tree monopoly by cer- tain man in Hyde Park" Then he acquitted the defendant as ''only small fry"
 Dear Walter" says a telegram from Hollywood, "this may save a