The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-19

. paperman Russell Whelan's wallop- ing typewriter flogging of Cong. Rankin in the July American Mer- cury Capt. Tom Knight (ex- radio exec.) hahndles the Mail Call program (starring Meredith Will sons grand crew) every week. A well done show for our troops every for overseas shortly :. D-Day was for overseas shortly D'Day was also the birthday of Nathan Hale who said: T only regret that have but one life to lose for my coun- try"
 Certain books have been banned to our armed forces under the sol- dier's vote bill, which provides that any books of general circulation purchased by the army (so buy them yourself and send them to your son, etc. shall not contain political ar- gument or political propaganda of any kind designated or calculated to affect the result of any election for Federal officers" The books banned include: Yankee from Olympus" by Catherine Drinker Bowen. The best-seller is the life of Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes! And a Book-of -the-Month selection '"The Republic" by Charles Beard
 (which ran in Life Magazine) Myths After Lincoln" by L. Lewis and One Mans Meat" Ca book of essays) by E. B. White If you
 asked us-this is the automatic promotion for which the post -office barred.
 Mrs. Evelyn McLean's coast-to- coast trip was an event. At Chicago the cops checked the passenger list to see who'd be on the train with the Hope diamond. Mrs. McLean's troup included her chauffeur, her bodyguard and seven servants Broadwayites hear that Dorothy Killgallen and her groom, Richard Kollmar, lost $80.000 of their own mint in the Dream with Music investment. The failure cost the packers. nearly $225,000 Clark Kinnaird has tilted King Features Syndicate to be asst. editor at the American Mercury Ella Logan, back from six months overseas en- tertaining troops, reports that an officious officer at Algiers makes actors more miserable than the Nazi enemy! Couldn't Sec'y of War Henry Stimson do something about such a bad ad for tme Army? =. Jack Benny, Al Jolson and others corroborate Ella, who went for six weeks and stayed six months. Her next hop may be to Russia.
 Jed Harris next play Gin Nov) will be Elmer Rice's dramatization of Ira Wolfert's book. Truckers S People" starring Paul Lukas The coin behind Meet the People, i" the coast revue, came from Ri- cardo Cortez Lena Horne two years ago got peanuts" working at Hollywoods Little Club. Last week at the Orpheum Theater her wage was $5,000. The management gave her a bonus of $500 ito remember 1t by" so big was the biz |. Meat rationing is expected back in August or sooner, butt he silver lin- ing is the shoe rationing will ease. Despite nasty rumors, Mike Todd says Mae West Is the easiest star to work with A famed rich mans heir has the local gendarmes dizzy. Been in the psyche ward many times A top bridge expert will be involved in pending divorce &C., tion shannon Dean, lovely show girl, and squadron leader Brian Paige, of the Australian Air Force,
 are suspected of having middle aisle plans . Edith Gwynn relays the tale of the actor. Teddy Berg man, who changed his name to Alan Reed for the screen. Alan, she said, explained that the name Bergman might not click in films .. "Oh. I dunno" said critic, "Ingrid Reed is doing okay"