The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
Walter linchelI
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MOTHS On A NEW YoRKRR
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NOTES or A NEW YORKER
 Perhaps Che most thankRul of all the thousands who Went Out On the Town Thanksgiving Eve was To college kid, who took Q popular deb Co Q night club in the swank sector .s His only weapon was Q 9l0 bill He figured it' would be plenty for the pair of theEn, but Co his disnay, pals Of his and their gtrls kept coming over to his table and ordering drinks J. Some of of them who knew Q guy like that couldn't possibly have Q lot of coin Ion hlm-sllpped some Morgenthau Lettuce Into his pocket to pay for their share-but he know it would never Do enough to cover the tab,
 Sn sheer panic ho just sat there, A msraid to ask for the check, unNl NhOy were tho lest customers and the place was closing Then with visions of spending tho holt. days washing dishes to pay lt OH oft, ha asked for the bill .. Ills worst fears were realized It totaled sae,NO He reached into his jeans and pulled out eei He had |enough left over for two more datesl
 The heroine of Harry HeFVey's "schcol for Eternity" Is Amanda He got her after admiring Q rotogravure picture of Q girl more than 6 year before he wrote tne novel .. The other day Iriends did some detective work and ois- covered that the Inspiration for Amanda is Q Powers model . Her name is Betty McLauchlen {. She is engaged to F. James Down. ing of Savannah, da., . boyhood pal of Hervey'sl He learned all this after 0 meeting was arranged for him to meet her in New York Amandas' lovelineSs may DC seen on the current cover of Vogue,
 Over at MGMs advertising bu. reau on Broadway, the secretary oi an executive was telling og Q Iof' tune teller she knows, and how clever she Is Office chunis asked to bO invited up some night TOT a preview Into the future AT. rangements were made ..... A cons tirming letter came from the elair' yoyant She wrote; Thurs. day will be okay for me. I'll be there if nothing unforeseen hap' penS."
 Al Fefe's Monte Carlo tho other night Q titled woman ordered a certain champagne that Is impos' Slble to get because of tho war Her companion told the headwalter to put In any kind of champagne because she wouldn't know the di- ference The headWNlter re. fused The titled ono fiouneed out because they didn't have her brand and went to another spot There the same thing was re. peated, but thLS time the phony bottle was iced She slipped it sageIy and said; "Therel Th@tS more like itl"
 Mpw. Roosevelt tells this story ahouk Bunker Till Monument, Of which all New England is proud '' When it was nearing completion there was difficulty in raising S20,- I GOO which was needed =. A MT Laurence of Massachusetts gave SiOO0O, saying other New England ers would surely help ., <. But the other ei0O00 came not from New EnRlanders, but from Judah Touro a .Jewish merchant of New orleans
 Mrs. Roosevelt likes to @A the atory, she explains, "because t Is the only piece of American ms. tory l ever told my husband mat he didn't know before"
 Sohn Hearst, the newspaperman'S hoy. met a fellow in Reuben's the other middle -of-t -the-night, who once trimmed him with an old Faeket The chap had given him up on q horse race, and not only wasn't there such horse-or race-but there wasn't even such a townl Hearst simply had to let him know that he was hep to him Eight years ago." he said, when you Swindled me out of that money, ! was awfully mad at you, wish l could make up my mind what to do to you right now"
 "I understand" was the retort "you haven't played Q horse tir since. You should thank me-tof teaching you iessonl"
 
 Joe E. Lewis told one of his song. writers that a certain master oi ceremonies in town was using some of the special songs he had written for him Dan Shapiro, the author, dropped Into the night clut where the burglar was appearing and heard him doing the material He buttonholed the pilferer and asked him to lay off in the future "So you're the genius who wrote that song" was the retort amazing i've been doing 1t for two weeks and 1t Hops for me. You must be overTatedl"
 When the alarm was given aftel The Local Loan Company on 7th Avenue and 4lst Street was held uT last Wednesday, radio police cal sirened up to the door Out jumped Officer Wallace of the l4tt Precinct, who rushed in yelling Whats the Inatter?" .. "WhatS the matter?" shouted the cashier Well, you know that lone cowboy bandit who's been holding uT | H1CLOANS AailaHp N V6r Home Repairs NN Ny<