Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-15
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Things You Kne,U All Along:
(But Ufich dopey me just found out.)
President Truman is not i'll, but
the Army has completed plans for
Presidential suite at Walter Reed
Hospital. FDR and other govt Of
ficials invariably used the Naval
Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Since
Mr.. Truman served in the Army Gin
World War y, the Army has no in
tention Of turning over its prize
alumnus to Naval medicos, should
he need doctor. (Mr. Truman
discovered that trying to be mid
dle-of-the-roader means you get
slugged from both sides.)
In Berlin the Nazis (civilians, too)
gather in front of U. S. PXs and beg
the Yanks 'for chawklott, choon-
gum" and other goodies, even Gig
gies. The Americans often share
with them. When the Nazis are
safe distance away they make
cracks" thumb to nose, etc.
Nurses just back also report the
Nazis practically dare the Yanks to
hit them with their vehicles or bikes
as they cross streets. But when they
see the Russians coming in cars,
they flee. Because the Russkys run
over them! (They respect THEMD
"Fala at Hyde Park" is the title
of an unusual short released on
EnR'c hirfbIov Ton 20fh
Six thousand of the 82nd Airborne
Division (who marched up Fifth
Ave. the other day. will re-enlist.
During the war ammunition was
manufactured in the House of Lords,
London.
Believe it or not, but there is even
lobby in Washington to prevent
the govt from establishing national
cemeteries in each State. Gene
terry associations are behind the lob
by.)
Telephones Immaculate (The Hy-
gienic Phone Service of N. Y, Inc.)
is a service which disinfects your
phones twice weekly. A New York
er borrowed the idea from London,
which is supposed to be decades be-
hind New York.
Denver has law which prohibits
anyone from photographing a wom-
an in her bathing suit without her
consent. (How about without her
bathing suit?)
It's against the law in England to
marry your mother-in-law.
The howl of wolves at night is
really love call.
A Marine never wears pants or
carries gun. Marines wear trous-
ers and they never call a rifle
gun. (Such airsD
Pawnshops use three brass balls
as a sign because they were part
of the coat of arms of the Medici
family, the first famous pawnbro-
kers. (My hockshop told me.)
The moon is gradually applying
brakes to the earth's spin. AS a
result, the day is now lengthening
at the rate of one-thousandth of a
second century. (FevvensakesD
Napoleon invented the income tax
to pay for wars.
Midtown Novelette,: A noted at
torney revealed this in the Blue An
gel. A mother and daughter were
threatened with eviction from a 72nd
St. apartment. Because the
neighbors complained of the girls
vocalizing. "She's always practic-
ing!" said the landlord. Their
lawyer argued the owner into with
drawing the dispossess notice and
warned him: "Some day you'll pay
to hear her singh" They moved,
anyway, because the neighbors were
so mean. That was years ago.
If those neighbors do not know
what became of that girl-they can
pay to find out-at the Met Opera
House . Patrice Munsel!
The Late Watch: Clark Cables
steadiest companion is Virginia
Grey. The reports linking him with
this and that gal are strictly fill
ers." Big furore in Washington
over Gen. Ike's shakeup at the PEN
tagon. They're the lads who flew
a desk" largely because socially
ambitious wives couldn't live any
where else." Hotels will be
jammed until next December with
out let-up. Conventions, buyers,
etc. The Burke-Van Heusen
score in Nellie Bly," is rated q
goody. Groucho Marks dghtr,
Miriam, has switched from a news
mag Gas copy gaD to an a. m. paper
as cub reporter, already.