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Notes Of an Innocent Bystander:

AhC "LTCIcSS. ndQlO COVeTdBS
OF the San Francisconfab is all aces.
The news analysts are turning the
pockets of their minds inside out and
presenting perplexing peace prob
lens with admirable clarity. They
are driving home the issues which
will affect every American home.
-. Nothing more soothing than the
Nazi shortwavers' blah-by-blah de-
scription of Verminy's dying gasps.
-. Commentator Baukhage's adroit
delivery packs a wallop. His recent
radio report of FDR's interment
landed in the Congressional Record.
-. Rita Hayworth's quip-bandying
with Cholly Mccarthy kept the chuck
les rolling at swift pace. Talk
about crimson faces. A current best
seller means that America is skid
ding into "collectivism." The tones
author appeared on the Chi. Round
Table and was asked to give a clear
definition of "collectivism." He
flunked the query.
Memos for a Scrapbook: In lit
erary weekly John Mason Brown
has embroidered delightful bit of
literary lace: Praise has never
made anyone unhappy. We like it
even when we do not believe it. We
tire of it only when it is bestowed
too long on other people. 1t is mu-
sic we do not object to having played
offstage. Although it may shame
our consciences and insult our
minds, it does no damage to our
ears"
Between the Book Ends: Top-hight
reporter Ira Wolfert has captured
the sordid tragedy, flaming courage
and shining hopes of the current
struggle via american Guerrilla in
the Philippines" (Simon g. Schuster).
This slam-bang chronicle of It. I. D.
Richardson's exploits creates spir-
itual glow. :. Most timely is A. E.
Kahn and Michael Savers 1.-THE Plot
Against the Peace" (Dial Press).
Here are the names of the fascist
peace-wreckers and their battle
strategy. =. Morris L. Ernst's 1.-THE
Best Is Yet" offers a sizzling series
of essays. His most crushing hay
makers land on the few prostitutes
in our midst. Such Journalists" can
cover their depravity with lofty
rhetoric, but they can't hide their
shame.
Quotation Workmanship: A.
Ward: Let us all be happy and live
within our means, even if we have
to borrow money to do it with.
r. c. Sheriff: The telephone be-
gan calling out like spoiled child,
and he hurried off to soothe it.
Dorothy Parker: She said her words
with every courtesy to each of them,
as If she respected language.
The Jergens Journal: And so re-
main Your New York Correspond
ent who, in this babble of tongues,
just found out that Eden means gar
den, Molotov means hammer, Stain
means steel and Truman-means
business.
Stalingrad rocked under a muir
derous barrage. Late one night, a
creaking ferryboat, piloted by a
Wheezened old boatman, was
smashed by shell. The old man
and young lieutenant aboard were
thrown into the river. The heavily
packed soldier started to go down.
Here" shouted the old man,
take this life preserver," and
Topped it over the officers shoulder.
The lieutenant tried to push it away.
=. stop, you fool" screamed the
boatman. I'm old-my arm is
missing. I'm through But you're
young and can fight. Take the pre-
server. Hold Stalingrad!'
Just another unsung, unknown hero
in the fight for Decency.
COunter-Attack:
Little lima BentagO is a six-year-
old orphan. Her father-killed at
the front. Her mother-by a Nazi
bomb. On Red Army Day all
the other children in her kindergar-
ten class were busy writing letters
to their fathers or brothers. lima
came sobbing to Natasha Zemskaya,
her teacher. Il have no Daddy and
no one to write to- Natasha COM
forted the child and told her to write
to 1t. Alexander Kuksenok.
Little lima laboriously poured her
heart into scrawlins letter. Soon
she received an answer. Don't you
cry, little Inna," wrote the lieuten-
ant. From now on I'm your broth
er. am sending you little gift.
Be good girl. Love, Alex"
Each week Alex wrote to his newly
adopted sister. {. Suddenly the let
tiers stopped. After several weeks,
lima received note. 1t was signed
by hundred soldiers and said:
ALEX has been killed, but do not
feel bad. His last wish was for all
of US to become your brothers. So
now you have a very large family,
hundred brothers. Be a good girl
and write to us. Love. :"
Ilya Ehrenberg, Soviet newspaper
man, writes of his talk with a Ger
man sergeant. "He (the cerpe,ptN