The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-09
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NOTES or A NEWsPAPERAEAN
 Some of Che Broadway brain. fnsters were solving" the worldt nroblenas. The gab switched to thG Ee~emerRence of Joe Stalin.
 'Y don't got it," said one. "Sc Halied reliable sources reported JoC was very sick--some said dying oi Hoad. Now he turns up, and they Say he's in the best of health aflc was merely enjoying 9 vacation"
 "Oh, dunno" observed another Thinker. T hear Stalin is far from well-and right now is suffering From a terrific grippe"
 "Yeh-yeh," interrupted @ third who made the most sense. '"The same terrific grip he's always had on everything"
 Mayor O'Dwyer's % sales-tax plar Co help finance the subway recalls the time Jimmy Walker was a State Senator and the legislature at Al- bany was. arguing Q raise in sub- way tariff {. State Senator Nichol was against raising the fare.
 Don't you think" orated Sena- tor Ntchol, that the people of New York City go too far for a nickel?'
 Walkers retort: You've gone pretty far-for a Nicholp
 At a local city desk yesterday some lads were swapping definitions of @ plagiarist, and asst editor Johnny Bott recalled this:
 "A plagiarist is guy who gives birth to an adopted baby"
 Several soldiers stranded on the PacificoaSt, due to lack of trans pOrtation, were willing away the hours playing cards,
 Looks like we're stuck" said a e. I. We might as well dream of the white Christmas the folks are having back home"
 "Yes," sighed another soldier, "when I was kid I used to play with trains at Christmas and wish were a soldier. Now I play with soldiers and wish I were a train" "
 To heal MT. ChurchilTs wounds alter his defeat at the polls. a Kings messenger offered him The Order of the Garter.
 Churchill, the story goes from London, thanked him but spurned 1t. Sorry" he said. T already have The Order of the Boot!"
 After a dinner rendered the foreign ministers in Moscow some of the members of The Big staff amused themselves giving lessons in Russian and English It be- came a contest as to which side Knew more of the others lingo Alter some correct answers one of the Tanks flunSed a word, and the others enjoyed big ha-ha To which the American said: I'll bet not one Russian here knows the meaning of the word 'straight'p
 A SoVietcetera swifted: Doesn't v mean without soda water?"
 Boston has been among the places mentioned as the permanent site for the United Nations But there are people who are skeptical that the Back Bay burg will be chosen. AS one doubter observed: {: Suppose they pick Boston. The cen- sors there might object to some document as being obscene because it happens to contain a phrase that includes a new birth of free- dom'I"
 A reporter interviewed c politico from one of the Southern poll tax States on his 60th birthday |. You've been in Congress a long time, haven't you?" asked the re- porter "Ah shuah have said he Solon. Nearly 25 yeahs!'
 "Guess," said the scribe, you've geen mighty important changes?' s"Yeah," was the retort. and Ah've been against them all!"
 That reminds us of one Marquis cnilds relayed. It was in l936 when FDR tried to get an anti-lynching bill passed .. James Byrnes, now Sec'y of State, then a Senator, blocked it FDRs son, Jimmy one of the Presidential secretaries got Senator Byrnes on the phone .. Father wants to know" said Jimmy. "how much longer the antl- lynching bill is likely to be before the Senate"
 ''Itn be here until 2o3s," said Hyrnes, unless he withdraws itr
 Charles Edison, son of the great !aventor. told friends how when he was campaigning for Governor of New Jersey he introduced himself to voters: by saying: People will inevitably associate me with my father. But I would not have anyone believe I am trading on the name of Edison. would rather have you know me merely as the result of one of my fathers earlier experiments"
 The elder Edison hated wearing a dress suit. Mrs. Edison, however, talked him into putting one on for a reception The affair was stuffy and Edison squirmed in dis comfort He finally told Mrs Edison he was going home. T can't stand this doggone straitjacket!" he eroaned as he left.
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