"Stalin Isn't Sick "

Like most newsmen trained in fidelity to fact, newcomer Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert C. Ruark has long looked with amused incredulity at the ingenious, highly imaginative product of a money-making little tribe: the Broadway columnists. Last week, with a column to do it in, he gave his own parodic version of what thousands read under the impression that they are getting the inside dope, hot from Lindy's and the Stork Club:

"Get Cap Krug to tell you what he said to John L. Lewis. . . . The international set buzzing over what a headwaiter told the Duke of Windsor. . . . Stalin isn't sick. . . . Insiders say he has been dead 44 years. . . . King Farouk of Egypt wears a fez. . . . Betty Grable quitting the flicks to go into politics. . . . Bilbo quitting politics to go into the movies. . . . He'll play the title role in a revival of The Klansman. . . . Winston Churchill likes cigars. . . . Get Gandhi to tell you what he said to Nehru. . . . What Hollywood biggie dropped $40,000 in a floating crap game last night? . . . Shepheard's Hotel has an 'a' in it. . . . Prices have risen since the war. . . . Inflation the cause, insiders say. . . . Victor Mature and Margaret O'Brien eating ice-cream cones together. . . . Democrats worried over the coming elections. . . ."

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