Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-01
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Notes Of a Nero Yorker:


fered an article by Gypsy Rose Lees
mother. The story was about Gyp-
sy New Workers are familiar
with the silly quarrel between these
two =. Supposed to have started
when Gypsy wrote articles for a
magazine about her early career in
which her mater was kidded lot
and unfrocked little Broad
wayites later heard buzzing about
mother and daughter getting to the
point of name-calling.
Once Gypsy received a telegram
from her Nom, which warned that
unless the two could get together
about a certain matter she-the
mother-would give" the story to
the newspapers.
Look, Nom, don't be fool" re-
piled Gypsy, don't give it to the
papers. Sell it to them"
Now is probably the last time to
recount this instance of the humor-
Gus by-play that went on between
FDR and Henry Wallace. When Mae
West was suing Frank Wallace for
divorce the papers were full of sto-
ries headed Mae West Charges Wal
lace Unkind to Her." The President
scissored one out and sent it to the
vice president with a note Tin his
own handwriting reading, Henry,
is this the way to treat your wom-
en?"
Ernie Pyle reported the incident
of captured Nazi General Won Schle-
ben, who squawked to Yank COM
manders about American photogra-
pliers taking his picture without ask
ing permission And how Gen
eral Collins reminded Won Schlieben
that in the United States there is a
free press land we in the army
cannot stop our newspapers from
printing the news and taking pic
lures" In Time Cor Life) a few edi-
tons ago, we read what the photog-
rapher said when Won Schlieben
barked: "Oh,. I am bored with you
American photographers taking my
picture" The American hocus-focus
man (who understood Germany
snapped back: "And I'm bored TAX
ing pictures of captured Nazi gen.
erals"
This is the newest Russian gag
overheard at the Madison Bar: $50
Ivan Ivanovitch died CALAMITY in the
midst of battle" sobbed Katerina
Mikhailovna Mikhailovitch. You
say he uttered my name with his last
breath?"
Part of it" replied the returned
soldier, "only part of it."
An ironic fact is that George M.
Cohan never could scribble a sue
cessful ditty about baseball, the sport
he loved so much. Cohan, as all
Broadway knew, was a Polo Grounds
faithful. Yet the two songs he wrote
about baseball were never per-
formed more than few tired times,
even with John McGraw and the
Giants lending themselves to its pro-
motion. Yet Albert Won Tilzer's
Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
Is as famous as the game itself, and
Won Tilzer saw his first baseball con-
test only short while back, after
his tune had been played and sung
for decades.
Take Me, etc." was not the first
baseball song ever written In 1885
ballplayer named Kelly was an idol
up in Boston. A faithful fan scrubbed
a ditty tagged "Slide, Kelly, Slide"
The three-word phrase became more
popular than the song.
A song was responsible for finish
ing a baseball stars promising ca
reer when it looked as though he
might develop into another Hubbell
or Walter Johnson. His name was
Harry Covaleskie, and he was with
the Phillies.
One season he established himself
by pitching against the Giants three
times in five days (beating them in
all starts) and taking a pennant
right from under their noses. TIE
Giants, burned up, found out later
that CovalcSkie, as kid, had
trouped in amateur vaudeville sing
ing "Silvcr Threads Among the
Gold"
One afternoon the following sum
mer Covaleskie was hurting against
the Giants when from their dug-out
came the strains of "Silver
Threads" The Giants kept this up
all during that series, and other Ma
tional League clubs followed with the
same ribbing . In six weeks, Co.
valeskie was nervous wreck
The following year saw him fade
from baseball completely.
Despite the ODT's warnings
against unnecessary travel, vaca-
ton travel is up 10 per cent APP
parently, there are people who won't
do anything to help win the war
even if it means staying home and
doing nothing.
A certain New York State Senator,
after nervous breakdown and
holiday in a sanitarium, was pro-
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