Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-11-08

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Columnisf at York.
You can positively get delivery on
a Dodge or Plymouth, within four
weeks, at about $4,000. In Sweden!
All show windows there display
U. S. 1916 cars. . Espionage (and
counter-espy) is terrific there, more
so than during the war. Russia
allegedly has 125 intelligence agents
working out of the Stockholm en-
bassy-almost twice the number the
British have dittoing. We got none,
huh? :. Howard Hughes, the zil-
ionaire, says he wishes his biogra-
piers would get things right for
once. One mag piece said he in
herited II million from his pop. IT
inherited $300,000!" he exclamation
marked. :. They tell you that the
biggest spender in the world today
is Robert Arida, Syrian. He al
legedly maintains an 11-room apt at
the Ambass; bought Hitler's
yacht from the Bwiddish Govt for
only 400 Gs. 1t has a crew of over
100. . He has three pleasure
planes and spends $3.50, 1000 monthly.
What British Govt gave it to him?
Sallies in Our Alley: Shermint
Billingsley was still Cabling
about the night club owner on
the coast who was stuck up and
robbed of S400. "Glad it
wasn't me-" said the Stork Club
man. "Can you imagine what
Ell MorOcco's Perona and the
others would say if ever was
found with only S40O on me"
Sights You Never See from a
Sightseeing Bus: The elderly lady
in the West los. She starts each
dawning with a suitcase loaded
with cartons of milk and sets them
out all over the neighborhood for
pussycatS. . Passersby waving
to the mayor VINO always ta-tas
back. No kiddin'-seen it wild me
own eyes. The little old chap
who cadges drink in the Bird Ave.
joynts with piece of rope. Bets
you drink you can't tie him up
tight enough to keep him bound.
Always wins. The picketing bar
bers. They all need haircuts.
The S ayem brawl between oodles)
at 50th and 9th Such smuggling!
"There's No Business Like
Show Business: 1t happened
recently on the coast. Sid
Slate and his wife had a tiff.
=. So she packed up and left
for Los Angeles. Sid phoned
his best chum, Sid Gold, to meet
her at the deppo and straighten
things out. Which pal Gold
certinny did. ). Mrs. Sid Slate
will become Mrs. Sid Gold after
she is Freenovated.
Erich Remarque, the book-Writer,
gave Ingrid Bergman his only bottle
of that fiery Calvados that he speaks
about in his "Arch of Triumph"
beSt-clicker. . Howard Koch and
his bride came to town to work on
the screenplay of Earth and High
Heaven" Had to dwell in six diff
ferent hotels in seven days. On the
seventh his wife forgot which hotel,
whereupon they decided to return
to H'wood. Natalie Schaefer,
the actress, lost a big money fash
ion-announcer job in Detroit. Be-
cause the man who was going to hire
her wouldn't wait more'n 21a hours
for Natalie to finish a phone con-
versation. Imagined The beest!
Fannie Hurst may give Nor
ma Shearer her first screen
story, "She Walks in Beauty"
for NOrma's return to the films.
She'd play woman her own
age. A Hollywood novelty!
Don Ameche wonders if anybody
ever called the President Har1ied
Truman. Eddie Jaffee is con-
WINGED there's something very fishy
about the meat shortage. Bill
Schiller rates a patty-cake for the
campaign he's waging as candidate
lOI Sldle Selldle. ne lighting LOT
education and housing of vets
At the Glass Hat two Repubs were
indulging in their pet pastime-pan-
ming Truman. 1.-The whole nation
said the first, ''is laughing up their
sleeves at him." You kiddin'?"
asked the other. who's got
sleeves?"
Lew Parker found out why the
series games at st. Louis didn't
break attendance records.
Most of the Missourians are
in Washington!
The boss of New York union
announced that its long strike was
over, and he ordered everyone back
to work at a midtown hotel. But
one lad continued to picket after all
the others resumed working. "Hey!'