The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-26
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The Private Papers
OF Cub Reporter
Eddie Bowling, the star Of Time
of Your Life and other plays, Is
an intimate Of the President. Not
islong.agosEddie broughtis0ne Broad
wax entertainers to- szuIzxss White
House guests. Among the stars MAS
Giovanni. the delightful pickpocket
Giovanni, as almost any Broad
wayfarer can assure you, is so
good at his business--he can remove
your vest without your suspecting 1t
At any rate, the President
was vastly amused. He suggested
that Giovanni get the gun from q
White House guards holster !.
But every time Giovanni approached
the Secret Service mantle latter
backed away. saying: Mimi. Not
me, please When FDR later
asked Bowling: did he get that
guards gun YETI" Eddie explained
how the guard was hep to matters
and wouldn't be sociable IF
you engaged him in conversation,
Mr.. President" suggested Eddie.
Giovanni would have his gun in
four seconds" DO you know, !"
whispered Mr.. Roosevelt. that even
the President of the United States
hasn't the authority to get that man
away from that door2',
81 Secret service srpeR have only one
bossTeopgress, 1sanm
Why Historians Go, Wrong Dept:
After the Roosevelt-C Churchill meet
ing at sea, one of the weekly news
digests reported that FDR and VIM
ston met for FIVE days and not three
days as reported almost every
where.
A Washington colyurnist told us
that Ave days" is wrong they
met for three days How do
you known" we asked the colyum-
er. You weren't therel" !.
That's right" he said. but I got
that fact from a teller who hap
pened to be ON the trip--Averill Har-
rirnanl' -. Back in New York
we confronted the magazine man
why did you report it was
Eve days" we asked when Aver
III Hartman who was there ought
to know" q. II don't know any
thing about Mr. Harriman's accura-
cy," was the reply, but we got our
info from one who was also on the
trip-FDR's doctor!"
John Gunther's new book (due
shortly has been named Inside
Latin America" but M. Schuster,
the publisher, suggested: 1.-THE Al
manac de Gunther' -. Mack
Gordon. the song-writer. is doing a
book on his commen-sense diet He
calls it: 1.-THE First 100 Pounds Are
the Hardest Gordon went
from 322 to 22o in one year-4by eat.
ing Louise Atwill overheard
catty crack about herself
'Where'd you get that?" she fang'd.
''over the Sourgrape Vine?"
Netu York Heartbeat m
The Zig Parade: Nancy Kelly OF
the Moom-P itchers. strutting south
on Madison Ave. m shapoh made
Of fresh vegetables Ingrid
Bergman, the tough gamin of 'Jek-
yll and Hyde" feeding the pigeons
in the park . S. Jay kaufman.
who says Beatrice Lille has cam
celled her passage to here FIVE times.
II want to come she cables, but
my heart won't let me-
saIlies In Our Alley: Pancho, the
Riviera's maestro. tells about the
draftee who won deferment after
he convinced the medico that ev-
erything he looked at seemed
blurred. Two hours later. coming
out Of a movie. he bumped into the
medico, who glared and glared, II
begya pardon, said the poker-faced
draftee, .:bpt can you please tell me
II this ] IS die right bus to New
York; 4..------
Menos Of bIidpighter; A. WOOL.
colt will play himself in Babes in
Arms tRooney and Garland. In
the forewofd to the fiim-an MGMer
Harper's win publish Jay Al
lens book, his hrst, which he ex-
poets to write in six weeks. A honey
Of a name: my Trouble With Hit
Ter" ~. Ed Murrow is expected
back from London in mid-Nov.
Shirer may sub for him there !.
Finnish Minister Hialmar Procope
is readying Finland's White Paper
due this month Procope is the
only Ambassador who looks like one
~. A Bund atty will be in another
jam next week when he is indicted
on charges Of forging a divorce !.
There win be an entirely new gam
bling syndicate in Miami this sea-
son Bob Teller expects to be
drafted by mid-0ctober. fans fear
The voice of the harp in Dis
ney's new hit, "Dumbo." is ZaSu
Pitts.
Broadway Byron Says: She's Got
You lin the Hollow bot Hers Hand
When Yeu'ye Got HesEin the, Hollow,
of Your Head. - r.it