The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-08

G8Nu0net8 reioyeu tniS one va 0 Chandler About the luncheon \ rendezvous between the King and | General Eisenhower, during which His Majesty turned to the General and remarked; What do you think of MontgomeryS"
 Eisenhower paused and then rec piled: Hes Q great military genius,
 but frankly I often have the feel-
 Ang he's trying to get my job" "oh, reallypR said King George. I'm glad to hear that"
 HOW do you mean," Ike asked syoure gladp"
 t ''Well," answered tho King be- tween giggles, ito tell the truth I've been Q little worried about the same
 thing, myselfl"
 An Anti-New Dealer was naked if no intended voting for Dewey. ''oh," he oh'd. T don't hate Roose-
 welt THAT much!"
 The other night Major William Corum was arguing with friends about the election odds, He called across the room to Q renowned Broadway betting commissioner:
 "You're the champion on Presi- dental odds. Tell my friends here what they are" The betting man replied; "one hundred to orL on Roosevelt to winw
 How do you like that phony9" screamed Corum, everybody in town knows they are 800 to Pl"
 We enjoyed this scene. It is typi- cAl of Dewey rooterS. One of them was convinced Dewey couldn't lose, f"r tell you" he argued, he has 1t lNu wrapped up. The polls mean
 nothing, He Is the positive win- ner,"
 How positive are your" some one asked him,
 well" he said, 'Ill bet you. Do you wann Q betp"
 "Yes, I do, How much shall We 1 hetp" To which the Dewey-cant-loSer said: "what odds will you giveP"
 If this George Bernard Shaw sally has been printed. 1t eluded us, lsTennyrate, at his last birthday he Ikold newspapermen; '"YeS, I ana now oS and I haven't an enemy In the world. not one enemyl"
 "A beautiful thought" responded q reporter,
 l yep" added shaw, "1ve out- lived them all"
 William A, Lydgatc, editor of the Gallupoll (his book, What Amer l len thinks" is due on the 26th), offers this to show what Americans think about Germany. Not long ago the1 took poll asking people how they thought Hitler should be treated after the war. Practically everybody wanted him hanged, shot or imprisoned indefinitely. There were a lot of ingenious suggestions from the public. A San Francisco school taecher said: Have sone- body read his own speeches back to him day and night until he goes nuts"
 At . Hollywood gathering the other night Donald ogden Stew art made c talk on the brave new world. He told the story of the little boy whose Sunday school teacher asked who made him. The boy replied: I'm not done yet, I plan to have c part in making myself"
 Some of us were gahhing about the war correspondents who clashed with Army public relations officers overseas. Tho result was that several were suspended =. It recalled the incident during the Spanish Civil War when a United Press man cahled Q description of a gigantic tank battle involving, he said, "one thousand tanks .. All the other correspondents received cables from their bosses bawling them out for being scooped.
 Alexander Uhl Cat that time rep-
 resenting AP in MadridD said; "What the hell? Try to explain to ! the home office that there are only 40 tanks in Spain. They will still say was scooped by UP"
 The historians eventually will have to include this fact. That the | surrender of Tripoli (to Montgom- ! ery) was arranged by an officer in British public relations .. He held up the surrender for an entire day reporting to the General: "Sir, l suggest you enter the city not soon- CT than half-past two in the after noon. And be sure and come in from the northern part of the pub- lie square. Because the sun will be shining there then--the best time and place for good pictures!" Joe Alger is the chief copyrighter of Life promotion With others on the staff Alger was figuring out e nc wSlogan for Fortune For tune, they all agreed, was changing in character and it should also have a new slogan for Fortune For gestion got a howl, to wit: Al though Fortune is only half the size