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visit to the U. S." mainly to avoid
being summoned as a witness by
the war criminals at Nuernburg,
who still fondly recall the Cliveden
Set: The State Dept is anxious
to learn just how Doris (World's
Richest GaD Duke could enter Italy
without a visa, which the State Dept
didn't give her. :. The reason Her
bert Hoover's marriage to a wealthy
wilder is being retarded, they say,
is family static" >. Biggest story
that ever happened In the Wash
ington Press Club didn't make any
Of the papers. A U. S. Marine, fed
up with columnist's poison about
FDR, ETC., picked him up bodily and
tossed him from the bar into the
lobby.
After the San Francisco Confer
ence, a Russian attache visited Hol-
lywood as the guest Of Gregory Rat
off, the director. .. Ratof pointed
out numerous movie queens.
On one set Ratoff sighed: "They
are all SO beautiful, but, unfortu-
nately, they don't stay happily mar
ried very long!" "In Russia"
explained the visitor, lone reason
marriages last longer is that wife
looks the same after washing her
facet"
At the 400 (which features named
bands) a Broadway song plugger
had too much to drink and started
being bore.
"Oh," oh'd Lenore Lennon,
"climb back into your fask!"
Enrol Flynn's forthcoming book,
'The Showdown" is said to be bet
ter than his first book. ). As Flynn
strolled with his friend, artist John
Decker, John remarked: II Won
der If Hollywood will believe you
wrote it,"
Eyes," said Enrol, 1T they think
it's not good"
In Ciro's the other midnight Jack
Haley was seated near an actor who
had just lost chance for a choice
role in film. He was popping off
about "all the inefficient directors,
blind producers, two-timing agents,
etc." Jack turned to his wife
Flo and niftied: pardon me, hon.
ey, but I think smell somebody
| burning"
Lee Sullivan, the singer, relays
the yarn about the two shipwrecked
drama critics. They drifted for
weeks on a raft. The more
frightened of the two started seek
ig forgiveness for his sins.
GIVE been a louise all my life,"
he said. I've been cruel to actors.
Too often I went out of my way to
hurt them. If I'm spared, I prom
Use. -"
"Just moment" shouted the 9TH
er one, don't 60 too far. I think
I see smoke from a ship!"
An executive Of the Scientific Re-
search Development Board had an
appointment with Prof. Oppenhei-
mer, the scientist who had so much
to do with completing the atomic
bomb. Oppenheimer was to
have registered at the Statler Hotel
in Washington. But the caller
was told that he was not regis
tered, and he wasn't. This is
why. While the phone operator
kept getting important calls for OPP
penheimer-he was seated in a far
corner of the foyer-patiently wait
ing for room! In any other
country he would have been given
a hotel or a palace. What dopes!
Sportsman r. s, Evans brought
this back from California. A
street corner prejudist screamed:
There amt enough room in this
country fer furriners and us Amur-
ricans." -. To which numbering
giant among the listeners interrupt
ed: "Yessiree, especially pale-face
foreigners!"
The squelcher was Jim Thorpe,
American Indian Olympics star.
Nothing New Under the Sun Dept:
Bob Bergman of the WOR news
room has traced the origin Of
WIN 90 oPPliSA " Sol Gill uSdSe.
:. In the Decameron of Boccaccio,
king with rowing eye was accused
of being wolf" The Decameron
stories we're published in the 10th
century. This king wanted a
mans two daughters as his wives
| and the father intoned: Il firmly
believeth you to be king and not a
ravening wolff"
John W. Raper, Cleveland
| Photographer for decades, has put
some of his peppigrams between
covers. The title is: "What This
World Needs" We liked these
especially. y. The theater box Of
fee counts the cash, not the ap-
| plause. Justice is what we get
when the decision is in our favor.
Quotation Workmanship: John
W. Raper: Success has made fail
ures of many men. Anon: One
man with courage names a major