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...conversation in pubs, clubs, offices, busses and homes, on the old basis of ril-listen-to-your-bomb-if-you'11-listen-to-mine. There was the new tale of a German airman who parachuted from his crippled bomber, then had to hike seven miles, trying at an inn and three villages before he could get someone to capture him. There was the heartbreaking story of the big London distillery that took a hit and the stock of gin that was lost...
Died. Benjamin Crawford ("Ben") Riley, 73, famed restaurateur; of suffocation, in a fire at his Yonkers, N.Y. Arrowhead Inn. Riley opened his first Arrowhead Inn in 1897 at Saratoga (where his innkeeping great-great-grandfather had been given a grant by George III), reportedly introduced frogs' legs to the U.S., numbered among his friends "Diamond Jim" Brady...
...history of philosophy for Simon & Schuster. A believer in scientific method as the most promising approach to truth, he is now writing a book (he thinks it is about his 30th) to prove his never-ending case. He is living in Princeton, N.J., in the cozy, old-fashioned Peacock Inn, with his good-looking young Countess (his third wife) and their six-year-old son, Conrad. He has given a few lectures at Princeton...
Ramshackle Inn (by George Batson; produced by Robert Reud) brought Zasu Pitts, Hollywood's funny, fluttery fool, to Broadway on a sleeveless errand. A sort of shotgun marriage between farce and melodrama, Ramshackle Inn is lousy with murders, lacking in thrills, not very long on laughs. As a befuddled innkeeper who winds up more than a match for the villains, Actress Pitts is amusing enough, but by no means a match for the bad play...
...Disciples Chaplains will be entertained at the Cock Horse Inn by Chaplain Ellwood C. Nance of the Chaplain School faculty...