The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-02
MEMos OF A GIRL FRIDAY


 Dear MT. WI hear the big coin for the Yankees came from Sonia Henie (Capt. D. Topping's bTtde)
 .. One reason H. Bogart stopped over to see Louis Bromfield at the latters Ohio farm was ito try and convert him into a Democrat" .. A hopeless task, I'd say We're getting bodies of mail from soldiers about the better treatment" &C., corded Nazi prisoners of war over here. Who'll send them to for some action? Some of our boys. frinstance, are put in the guard- house for minor infractionS of rules, while the Nazis laff and get away with almost everything. Makes me -yoo-ree-ussl The Blue Net work officials think it's so near they are rushing their aces to Paris with the possibility they will broad cast the cessation of hostilitieS from Berlin!
 Broadway ciggie gals are getting $100 tips from a tipSy Swedish sea captain who pays that fee to hear CueIH SCIIO d AIdWIy OWCAAoAA "OAA' The word is around town, and the girls wait for him Saw this sign in the cigar store at 46th and Broadway: We don't even have the cigarettes you don't like!" .. Good feature yarn in this: Arthur Stern is a post office clerk at the Grand Central post office. He gives his first concert at Carnegie Hall on the 11th. A lyric tenor :. Read CTS Scope has hit the 300, 900 mark already, and Golfers tells me your air plug for w. Davenport's Jan. 27th article on the President and the Press probably contributed greatly to the record newsstand sale. ProbIy?
 Here's . lady that rates salute. Her name is Mrs. H. H. Pigott of Pittsburgh. She sells war bonds and Specializes in racetrack bookies, They keep buying them, too, even with the tracks shuttered :. Jeanne Rice phoned to say she sure does pity those poor ngiht club owners. First the Mayor turns the heat on them and then off :. Sunday Inquirer song colm says dozsn of song historians can't fine! out who wrote the song. She's Not a Lady, She's Just Cow" which Jimmy Durante used to sing. Dur" ante's agent. 1t seems, can't recall who wrote the lyrics. Has Jimmy forgotten that they first ran al: some doggerel in the colin in The Vaudeville News in the early 1920; and the author was Retlaw Chell" wyn?
 Walter Bishop, who wrote the song, '"The Devil Sat Down anc Cried" was in. Said your mention o2 that oldie of his started q bunch of phone calls and that the song may get new lease on life for which thanks, he yelled .. Duke Ridgley. ye sports ed of The Huntington, w. Va, Herald, says to be sure his wife (noW here) sees the town right. She's nice people. She says he doesn't smoke, chew, OF drink and has never been tight =. Goodness! What does he do fol eHGTClSef fLtducI ; O4bCoO 4Atk a piece on Fritz Mandl (via Ameri- can Merk) which confirms your ex- pose of several months ago :, Some apologistS for diplomatic ap" peasers claim there's no use plan- ming to punish NaZi criminal lead- CTS until they are caught O, yeah? Then why hasn't Hess been put on trial?
 Ray Josephs in Town and Coun- try tells of Dictator Peron (Ar- gentinD squelching incipient grumbling about his friendship (his huhO with Eva Duarte, an actress. Peron told assembled staff officers (who have swish companions) How much better than if as some militaries know it was said that I was being seen with actors!" The St. Louis Dispatch sent an editorial broad side against newscasts being inter- rupted by commershills. It rates a hat-tip M. D. Metcalfe of Sioux Falls sent me this: "A num- ber of people do not like the Rus sians, claiming the Russians do not believe in God. Seems to me God believes lot in the Russians" .. And Don Tannen says the Russkys are getting so close the Nazis are learning to dance the Kozzotsky Listening to the radio and reading thc headlines about the Germans