The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
MAN ABoUT TOWN

The Franklin D. Roosevelt. yrs., the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the U. s. Senator Ernest W. Me- Farlands of Arizona and the Will liam c"Berlin Diary') Shirers are Tot Way Insiders hear that Gov. Alison of Cal. won't give Jan Valtin a pardon. If true, he can never become an American Y. Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern of a touring Life With Father" troupe are GeZundheart {. The retire. ment of John Santo as the head of the Transport Workers Union was not as voluntary as the papers made 1t appear. Immigration agents are readying to arrest him Mary Lewis, the opera star, is making a tough fight of it at LeRoy Sani- tariuIn Same trouble as Helen Morgan Is Golfers dropping Firster John T. Hymns name from the masthead? 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, a penny op- era promoter (native Russian) then living at the Hotel Des Artistes and I whipped together several in- stallments, 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 enStalmcnts 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 peasant riding over the steppes in an ox-cart, a radio in the straw beside him was quoted by a couple of reviewers as proof that 'Govy' was nuts. Long af- forwards, when there were rumors that he intended to publish his newspaper memoirs a book pub 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 oneone on the staff to do her boss writing.
 And his claim that he brought Q 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 cigRies and hooch in their uniforms. In street clothes, anything goes The Louis-Conn fight contract has been signed for June, 1922, and niohibitS Joe from giving anyone else a 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 ot the nations leading chemists still refuses to pay off on his Wllkie (for PresidenO wager--a Grand How come the papers missed the story about Jay 0. Flippen's cook gtabbing her husband to death? He was the Flippen chauffeur It's another Lombardo over at the Lebert Lombardos The writers and tt,c hoe-string publishers Of the hit smash, T Don't Want to Set the World oi1 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 4. Jim Morris, owner of the Detroit hockey team (and Q big racing stable) dropped $2o,ooo 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