Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-09-18
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The Private Papers
OF a Cub Reporter

Eddie Bowling, the star of "Time
of Your Life" and other plays, is
an intimate of the President. Not
long ago Eddie brought some Broad
way entertainers to amuse White
House guests. Among the stars was
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 it
At any rate, the President
was vastly amused He suggested
that Giovanni get the gun from
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 door,"
Secret service men have only one
boSS-congreSS
Why Historians Go Wrong Dept:
After the Roosevelt-Churchill meet
ing at sea, one of the weekly news
digests reported that FDR and Win
ston met for five days and not three
days as reported almost every
where.
A Washington colyumist told us
that Give days" is wrong-"they
met for three days" "How do
you know" we asked the colyum-
er. "You weren't there!"
"That's right" he said, "but l got
that fact from teller who hap
pened to be on the trip-Averill Har-
riman!" Back in New York
we confronted the magazine man
"Why did you report it was
five days." we asked, when Aver
ill Hartman who was there ought
to know" Il don't know any
thing about Mr.. Harriman's accura-
Cyl 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: "The AL
manac de Gunther" Mack
Gordon, the song writer, is doing
book on his common-sense diet. He
calls it: "The First 100 Pounds Are
the Hardest Gordon went
from 322 to 22O in one yearly eat
ing T.. Louise Atwill overheard
a catty crack about herself
"Where'd you get that?" she fang'd.
cover the Sourgrape Vine?"'
Ne,0 York Heartbeat
The Big Parade: Nancy Kelly of
the Moom-Pitchers, strutting south
on Madison Ave. in a shapoh made
of fresh vegetables Ingrid
Bergman, the tough gamin of GEEK
yll and Hyde" feeding the pigeons
in the park S. Jay Kaufman,
who says Beatrice Lille has can
celled her passage to here five times.
II want to come" she cables, "but
my heart won't let me-"
SalIies 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 movie, he bumped into the
medico, who glared and glared 81
begya pardon" said the poker-faced
draftee, "but can you please tell me
if this is the right bus to New
York;"
Memos of Midnighter: A. Wooll-
colt will play himself in "Babes in
Arms" (Rooney and Garland). In
the foreWord to the film-an MGMer
Harper's will publish Jay AL
lens book, his first, which he ex-
poets to write in six weeks. A honey
of name: "My Trouble With Hit
Ter" Ed Murrow is expected
back from London in mid-Nov.
Shirer may sub for him there
Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope
is readying Finlands 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 divorce
There will be an entirely new gam
bling syndicate in Miami this sea-
son . Bob Feller expects to be
drafted by mid October, fans fear
The voice of the harp in Dis
ney's new hit, "Dumbo," is ZaSu
Pitts.
Broadway Byron Says: She's Got
You in the Hollow of Her Hand
When You've Got Her in the Hollow
of Your Head.
Broadway Smalltalk: Ben Bernie
got his new CHS program when he
met Mr. Wrigley, who said: "What
are you doing these days?"
Nothing" said Ben gloomily
"Well, how about working for me?"