POLITICAL NOTES: Gridirony

The Italian Ambassador and the Albanian Minister, Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Garner, Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, all sat down for dinner together one night last week in Washington. Such things are possible only at Gridiron Club dinners, where Washington newsmen play host and entertainer to the political great with song & skit.

Sample song last week:

> He may get weary and sick of fishin'

But nothing on earth can stop him

wishin'

That Old Man Garner,

He just keeps running along.

Sample skit:

> (Bill Green of A. F. of L. and Coshocton,...

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