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Ate eet age ee ee ae alata lal SS arin Me a = Pena LOS “ANGELES om - ve > Ne atitia: Chiat ail wiliott Roose- rT lecture, js ' Deing offered at #700... Dougias Wairbanks’ widder (Lady Ashley- s Hutton’s used- P $500,000 in a jong josing session), \ will go to work managing a Ne- ~wada gaming spot...Do you be- lieve the buzz that Hizzoner, the Mayor, may not run again? They gay he wants to settle on the coast where he bas several of- fers from studios to be an exec... Neville Wallace is the name of the Park Avenue socialite who may wed into the Irving Berlin fanfilly,..Everyoue is wondering about Garbo's new inierest. Can’t use his name yet. ‘Le Guardia now regrets alter- ing Sixth Avenue to “Avenue of the Americas." In 8 broadcast he used the name twice and clowned it, adding “takes up too much radio time”’...The Larry ‘Bests will be four next month.. A rumor around mortician cir eles is that Jim Farley has in- vested in a chain of undertaking places! The plan is to make it # coast-to-coast business...NBC announcers: have a private af- tair, “The Feedback Club.” All ‘members are “vice-presidents.” They pay $5 monthly into a kitty, which goes for posies and doo- dads (and does away with hat- passing collections) when one marries or passes on..-Is the wedding ring Ingrid Hallen wears the tip off that she is secretly Mrs. Robert critic) Coleman? Janis Paige “of the films has Art Ford the disc-jockey, spin- ning like a Weody Herman platter Ask Mrs. Arthur Murray what “happened at the editor's office where she bounced in, after a slick monthly mag's siztler ap- peared? Oh, Mama Mia!.- _Holi- Gay. gifts sent to Germany moust be marked “gifts” as a post of- fice regulation. In Germen “gift” ‘Means “poison”!.. -Didjez know that Pauline Poitier (iop design- er at Hattie Carnegie’s) is from the social register? Yer didden? . Well, here's another: Baroness Grippenberg (frau of the Finnish minister to Sweden) has taken a job as hostess at a hotel in the Bahamas.,.1 hear that Mrs, ‘Tos- canini it not returning from Italy. The maestro dwells in Riverdale alone, eeerernaae: Poor Henry Lustig ain't so poor as some people think. Real estatera tell you Mr. Lustig turned down a profit of a mii- lion on only one of his many aronartisgn $ The one in the 40th Me™: _— “maRAb & mrrmnis: DASE Rt a ee Se at. ana Park ‘Aves sector... ley, put this in the paper for nice BACYer Chenkin who unscrem bier your stuff via Western Union. His daughter Gertrude became & bride last week...Philip Dorn says it’s appropriate that the new United Nations site.ts on F. D. Roosevelt drive. “It was FDR's @rive that created the U. N.”.. Major I. M. Moss’ new book, “One Damned Isiang After Another,” got good notices, He says all proceeds will go to the Air Forces Relief Society...The Phillips H. ‘Lords are Sing.. -A certain colyumist we know may get richer endorsing a dine t of bras. Herbert Bayard Swope and Jerry Brady advise that Janu- ary J4th at Tropical Park (Mi- ‘ami) will includ “The Ruoyon Memorial Puree.” Also at Hialeah later. The jock- ‘eys, trainers, et al, I think, also turn over theirs...What’s this about you going to Reckingham fang tracks allover the nation? ‘Jerry Brady feels sure all will be glad to help, not only once, but make it an annual event. I think that's wonderful. The bunches ot a. a@ special race, ce ones, fives and tens are now on deposit at Irving Trust, 46th at. Damen could chly know he we not the Loser, but the Victor. ‘T assumed you ssw that fellow's jece in which he said he never ard of “a genuine newspaper- man -carrying a gat". ell, what's-his-name, who covers Headquarters (and who once went us all that firemen's slang) totes the biggest .45 I ever saw. He’s been with the same paper for decades...When Kay and I ‘get sore time we'll dig up the files for the others (including editors) who carry them on the hip or in their deske, which you often paragraphed about under “News- paperman Stuff.” Lehman's being offered the post on the World Bank vacated by Eugene Meyer...Mae West is going a series of recordings titled: “Bedtime Stories.” Thass- all!...I hope those many com- plainers {furriers) about the sev- era) fur items (prices diving) are convinced by now, They screamed we were positively wrong, etc. Dopes...Col, Matt Winn was at the Stork recently. He's 84, very gay and chipper. Said he's had 2 Derbies at Churchill Downs “ie ” and makes a milion bur “ext each...Amazing story makin mag rounds of « profile-m who went berserk du the - was hospitalized, and finally “ported to Hollywood wher- aanity isn’t noticeable. . Crossiey and 4 Hooper New —Your Girl Friday. | |