The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-19
AMIN ABOUT TOWN

AMIN ABOUT TOWN
 whi Yonkers, N. F.. editors please check the rumor that the widow of an ex-President is at The Con- vent of the Blessed Sacrament preparing to become a nun? <. 5. The Robert Benchleys are planning q surprise for their intimates {. \ B. Baruch, the banker, is mending at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hosp after an op. .. Whats this about Gloria Baker and groom Bob Topping? Their alleged pals say they will divide after the blessed- adventure Helen Wills Moody and J. Gilbert Hall, another ex- pert racqueteer, are playing love- sets ,. Society's Mrs. A. Plaut (nee Kate Hunter, until LaGuardia tied the knot) leaves for Reno any train. Her groom's father is the Pebeco mfgr :. King Geo. will send a gift of jewelry to Police Comm. Va1- entine Chief Inspector Cos tuna and Capt. Donnelly will be remembered, too Add wonder full Forms of Criticism: When FL liott (Garner) Roosevelt ankled into the Stork Club, his brother, F. D. R., Jr., waved and said, Hi ya,. Strangerl"
 Fritz Kuhn, now out on bail for allegedly robbing his own Bund members, will soon have company. Three other Bund officials will be charged with being common thieves" . Three more Federal judges will quit soon Eddie Rickenbacker, Jr., (12 years oldD is at New York hosp for an appen op Pretty Bobbe Sullivan, the Stork Clubs chief checker, whose chin was damaged in a car crash, has been offered $25, ,000E to settle. . Mary Kirk Brown admits she is planning a melting from Robert Kelly, owner of the Miami La Conga =. The Ambassador Bullitt-Beth Leary merger talk is taken seri- ously by her chums, but not by his -. Litvinov, Russia's best brief case carrier, will arrive here in the Fall with Stalin's blessing. Goodwill stuff The G-men are hep to the flood of Soviet spies recently arrived.
 The German Railroads the other day advertised conspicuously that Americans Prefer Germany" and attempted to show that more Amer jeans visited Hitlerville during 1888 than any other country, etc. Oh, we'll, if they're going to include such Americans" as Dr. Ignatz Griebl and all other suspected and accused German spies (who fled just as our Federal agents were closing in on them) of course!
 Philip Dunne, son of Finley Peter Dunne, the late humorist, will mid- dlo-aisle it with Amanda Duff. Santa Barbara, (Cal3 socialass in July Texas" Neal, of tthe Int'l Casino girl army. and s. Slate. one of the comics there, are Heading for a Wedding .. If Grover Wfe- Ian doesn't succeed in getting a major political plum after the Fair ends, he will prob'ly take big exec post with Paramount Pictures CoSp.. Barbara Brooks, the model and Claude Martinez, the Brazilian millionaire, have the same idea |. All that babble about Peaches Brvwning's new chum being Wool worth Donahue, was so much bunk The real heart has been M. Michaels, of the Weber and Heil- broner stores ... Brenda Frazier, who recently tipped the Toledas at 105, now tips them at 129 |. The Vallee program offers her 5 Gs for one interview.
 Has Daniel FrOhman gone blind? Friends say they've seen him being led about by his doctor and lawyer, and when he wasn't being assisted, he seemed helpless Brenda Forbes and F. Voight of "One for the Money" are ahem! =. About the only producer who made money last week was Brock Pemberton, who was summoned for jury duty. ". The romance of Mrs. James N. Hill, widow of the railroad mill nonaire, and David Corales, is off .. The income taxers are checking up on Wall Streeter, who talks too much around the Kit Kat club, anyhow Dick Flanagan, one of the local tax-collectors, and a Boston lawyer had it out at 55th and Madison Wednesday night T ought to warn you I was mid- dleweight champ at Harvard" said the Bostonian, which didn't scare Flanagan, who was an All-American at Notre Dame no so long ago.
 Speaking of income -taxers, here's why they had to hold up the sail ing of the Normandie for 40 min- utes and bother Miss Dietrich and take her gems: It seems that the star and. her. lawyer. aRegedly "staned" the govt. after promising to take care of Marlene's tax mat ters, etc. While waiting for some action, the Federals suddenly discovered that she was planning to Nn | Tnnnnr EI