The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-23
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When Lowell Mellett, former aide toFDR, was asked why the Presi- dent is a great executive, Melle,t said: Because he Is never too busy to-workl" =. Add towns you should be glad you didn't name: Rising Sun, Indiana John B. Kennedy, the news commentator, says now that the NaZi prisoners of war over here got their own newspaper-the next thing they'll probably demand WW be pensions! Sudden Thawt: Say! Could the War Department s request for MT. Byrnes' curfew be a move to offset the wars interfer- ence with the birth rate? When one night clubman griped about "his investments" a newspa- perman said: This is total war meaning total for everyone and eyyrything. This is your part in the war-to sacrifice more than others. For some people the war means to go~blind. For otherS-to go broke. Which would you rather?"
 Dimmed- Broadway looks like it is in mourning for the tragedy of war The electropatics were always the Main Stems star at fractions. The lights inspired songs, stories and poems Our pet ob- Servation about the Broadway mazda piece was uttered by G. K. Chesterton. Viewing the blazing spectacle he exclaimed: How beau- tiful! How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read!"
 Recently we mentioned that the War ManpoWer drive in Newark was big flop E. We got our data from the War Dept, pretty good source, don't you think? But Newark officials and newspapers Cand the mayor there) spanked our wrists for the report :. So wot? So nothing! New York papers (Thursday) confirmed it (many weeks later) as usual . You prob- ably heard of the Boston blueplood who saw "A Tree Grows in Brook lyn' and then told friends that it was story about American peas- antS"! What we'd appreciate learning from Justice ByrneS is what he has done about the dafiant Washington, D. C., stay-up-late joint which (at last reportsl remains open all night? That Toledo ;heater manager who kept open all night, too, what about him? Can't he be drafted to help pick up the Wollnded and dead?
 Many of us have seen the news photos ill the papers and news ree'S of grief-stricken kin - when they located slain fathers, husbands, sons and relatives But they Wer, war away-in Russia, China, France italy and elsewhere . Last night little Mary Lou Schneer, the "baby" of the Stork Club hat check staff, received official news that her kid brother was killed in actlon Her grief was heart wI6nchine :. I've seen such agony on others in the papers," observed Eo-Worker, but here it is right close up'' :. II Am Gazing Into MY 8-Ball" by Earl Wilson, the fa- mous nobody, will land on the best sei1&r lists any day. Terrific click .lThere was mo call' at the brok- erages for Dark of the Moon" last week. Monday and Tuesday gross es Were up high and Wednesdays matinee and night performances att tracted $7OOO. A Sunday-night broadcasetr'S coast-to-coast boost IS suspected.
 JHsiders at Washington will tell you that the curfeW has relieved the climbing absenteeism. One mid west war plant town actually suf- fered from fifty per cent absentee ism! It is now less than 20 per cent In many other war plants, they add, it is practically nonresident . Before his death A. Woollcott assigned his royalties from the sales of his book, "As You Were" to care for seamen through out the world. To date United Sea- mems Service received $10,778 from the late authors royalties It. Roland Hill Che was Archbishop Spellman's sec'y in Algiers) is the first CT to run for prsSic office. Has . good chance to oe elected Mayor of Minneapolis, pals report. HeaWent overseas as a pricate, and Gen. Eisenhower promoted him with bars made from Spam cans because no It. bars were abailable in the field Add new eyefuls in town: Yvonne Carlo of Vancouver, B. c. Her. family name is Middleton. She win soon be seen in the film: "Sa- lorne, Where She Danced"
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