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Reporting on a family weekend at Hyde Park, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt last week wrote in My Day: "After lunch yesterday my brother [Gracie Hall Roosevelt] wanted to go over to look at a barn which the President is interested in changing into a house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could...
...Broadway columnist, Danton Walker of the New York Daily News, reported his interview with an unnamed astrologer. Said Walker's oracle of Adolf Hitler: "His chart clearly shows him to be in the ever-tightening grip of a mental disorder. Neptune, the planet of imprisonment, treachery, insanity, assassination and suicide, is in his house of death...
...died in 1566, leaving behind him a book of cryptic verses supposedly predicting (among other great events) the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the revolt of Britain's American colonies. Nostradamus wrote: "The Chief of Fossan will have his throat cut. . . ." Said Columnist Walker's Astrologer: "Transpose fossan and you get OSSANF, the initials of Hitler's title, Oberster Sturm-Scharen-Anführer...
...almost a year bright little Sidney Skolsky has been a columnist without a column. A onetime Earl Carroll press-agent and Broadway gossip, Skolsky went to Hollywood for the New York Daily News in 1934, quit three years later when he was ordered back to New York. He worked for a while for King Features Syndicate, but he and Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs...
...Columnist Skolsky has a wife smaller than he is, and a love for Hollywood because it is the only place he has ever gained weight...