The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
Walter Willcllell
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playbore for 75 Gs (claimed falling down . flight of his stairs) but he settled out of court Collier's will put Joan Leslie on its cover soon. First movie star so honored Billy Rose doesn't want to be known as The New Ziegfeld Just the Old Rose.
 The owner of the Roney plaza looked over the Palm Beach scene incog. Is he interested in purchaS- ing the ultra-swanky Whitehall, one of the nations eyefuls? Ken Kling, the Joe and Asbestos cre- ator, is writing an expose called ''The Tout Racket" for a mag
 Producer Josh Logan, now in the Air Corps, is mending after an OF in 8 nearby London hosp =.
 Lepke is heavily insured-which ex- plains that worried look on the faces of insurance firms Mrs Jack Oakie (Venita Varden) is here with plans to return to the stage There1l be a big shift in army personnel. It'll grow bigger,n big ger. Many who think they are sci will be upset One of the syn dicates (not ours) ordered kills or references to certain Washington lawmakers-from Its recent expose on the Peace Now outfit Chas Bedeaux will be freed by the Army when nobody's lookin'.
 Allan Zoll, 8 founder of '@The American Patriots" (before the war) is back after an enlistment with the Canadian Army. One of his first visits was with Gerald L. K. Smith A West 57th Streeter (whose apartment is the scene for orgies with alleged models) Is begging fol a morals-raid - according to de- tectives When the new tax oi 30 per cent in night spots arrives will servicemen have to pay that too? The AWVS Motor Trans port Service needs volunteers tc drive govt cars. Apply IT E. 65th St. Y. Life will take up the Rankin shennaniganS in its next Sug- gestion for the caption: The name Rankin, according to c. w. Bard Sley's hook Con origin of surnames) comes from Reynardkin.
 John J. Astor, 3rd, slapped a tramr when he caught her reaching fol his wallet DennyS Wortman tha rrovopick fuI1eo NRok.a,.y1A.. .. Movies and Moby Dick and the Duke are as New Yorky as the town), is very i'll Ray Brock in the Balkans for 41s years, ant the New York Times were divorced last week - because of his SUD- port of Mihailovitch Although the Navy has directed that all It's Gas of July D are eligible for pro- motion to Lt.-Comdr Off their com- manding officers and physicals pass them), insiders will betcha that only 1000 of the 5000 will be promoted ... Photogs will be barred from the Lonergan trial Paul Small says he was not in a coast brawl over any gin game One-word review of Danny Kaye's first hit: FUN tastic". Sam Goldwyn can make this lovely-in-spots film even better by throwing away 30 minutes of Up in Arms" early - where it is repetitious Ed Flynn left the hospital yesterday The mother of the five Sullivan Navy heroes is the source for the news that their grandfather was Jewish. In Ger many that would have kept them out of the Naz navy Swanky Doodles who brag that their de- ScendantS came over on the May flower act more like people whose kin came over on a U-boat Winter book bettors are already say ing that two elections hence the Governor of N. Y. will be 8 Roose- welt His initials are also ED. He'll be 36 then-when peo- pie again get tired of peddling ap- pies Nasty Crack Dept: Some phoneys serving in Congress should be serving in Cafeterias.