High Jinks in Omaha

Last year Paramount Pictures threw a big costume party in Omaha, Neb. to give its Union Pacific a rousing sendoff. Exuberant citizens had so much fun they decided to have another Golden Spike

BURNS AND ALLEN She would not say Dan on the radio.

celebration. Into the midst of Omaha's high jinks last week stumped Radio Zany Gracie Allen, posing as Presidential candidate on a Surprise Party ticket, to hold a convention.

Down to Union Station to meet her went 6,000 bearded men and gingham-gowned women. Braving the bleak, rain-speckled wind was roly-poly Mayor Dan B. Butler, who asked giddy Gracie to call him "Dan." Said she: "You can't say Dan over the radio."

Despite the weather, the party was a huge success. The publicity paradise reached seventh heaven at Ak-Sar-Ben's coliseum, where 8,000 funsters unanimously nominated Gracie for President. Making her acceptance speech, Candidate Allen squirmed uncomfortably, kept tugging at her hips, finally blurted: "My girdle is killing me."

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