The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
MAN ARour TnwN

The Franklin D. Roosevelt. yrs.,
 the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester,
 the D. s. Senator Ernest w. Mc-
 EarlandS of Arizona and the Will liam ("Berlin Diary'D Shirers are Tot Way Insiders hear that
 Gov. Alison of Gal. won't give Jan
 Valtln a pardon. If true, he can never become an American Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern of a touring Life With Father" troupe are GeNlndheart The retire. nent of John Santo as the head of the Transport Workers Union was not as voluntary as the papers made tt appear. Immigration agents are readying to arrest him Mary Lewis. the opera star, is making Q tough fight of 1t at LeRoy Sani- tariJnn Same trouble as Helen Morgan Is Golfers dropping Firster John T. Hymns name from the n1asthead2 Tn a speech, Adolf told the Germans that "the Reds are beaten" :. In short, it's all over-but the fighting.
 Ruth A. Phillips of the N. Y. Mir TOTS Editorial Dept debunks her former editors Bunk of the Month: He says he was fired because he wrote a book about Russia. In the first place, his publisher suggested that he write about his travels to the Soviet. But 1t is ironic that he claims he got canned over a book he didn't write. When 1t was suggested that he did the Russian articles for the paper, Q penny op- era promoter (native Ruasian) then living at the Hotel Des Artistes and I whipped together several in- etallments, the writing being my job. ' wrote the stuff for several days. The ex-hoss now turned expose writer in book form did two or three 6nstalmentS devoted to marriage customs in Russia, when Arthur J. Pegler took over the ghosting. When that guys Long May It Wave ap- peared, the text was lifted largely from the Mirrors columns. Indeed one of my most spectacular sen- tences: Russia is 6 peasant riding over the steppes in an ox-cart, 8 radio in the straw beside him was quoted by a couple of reviewers as proof that '0ovy' was nuts. Long af- forwards, when there were runiors that he intended to publish his newspaper memoirs a book pulp fisher said to me: We wouldn't think of contracting for Q book by him unless we knew who was going to write it. Arthur Pegler wrote his editorial column oftener than he did. His secretary wife spent half her time soaring up oreone on the staff to do her boss writing.
 And his claim that he brought . million circulation to the Sunday Mirror can be proven inaccurate. It never hit the million mark until long after Jack Lait became editor"
 Judge Landis' new ruling will stop ball players from endorsing ciggies and hooch in their uniforms. Tn street clothes, anything goes :. The Louis-C Conn fight contract has been signed for June, 1942, and prohibits Joe from giving anyone else e crack at the title before that date That was some scream ing hair-pulling contest between May, the big bad wolf of the cast Beverly Paterno will Renotice her groom this week One of the nations leading chemists still refuses to pay off on his Willkie (for PresidenD wager--a Grand How come the papers missed the story about Jay 0. FlippeniS cook stabbing her husband to death2 He was the F1ippen chauffeur It's another Lombardo over at the Lebert Lombardos The writers and the shoe string publishers of the hit smash, T Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" are living on borrowed coin
 Jan Masaryk, now Foreign Min iSter for the CzechS in exile is bound for the U. S. .. Two huge dice games in town have been closed because of the Babchick killing in Brooklyn Jim Morris, owner of the Detroit hockey team (and Q big racing stable) dropped $2o, 900 on Nova Eighty million dol- lars has been spent in Manhattan and The Bronx this year for pos- tage--biggest since 1929 .. The post office here will add 5000 pos- tai employees for the Christmas