The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-17
Walter Wi1lcIaell
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A tremendous merger of depart ments at one of the wire services will cause many heads to roll. They combined the feature mat service with the feature wire service, hav- ing three persons for each job. Newspaper Guild will protest all firings.
 Many famous artists walked out of the recent Salamagundi Club after because one of the dull sketches defiled F. D. R, The new Selective Service Washington press agent is Major Hart .. He'll find out, poor chep Insid- CTS won't be surprised if Sumner Welles is persuaded to return to the State Department, which misses him terribly. Especially in Latin American matters. MT. Byrnes is in- Sisting he return Add chuckles: Lana Turner announces her steenth divorce just as her latest film is ready: Marriage Is a Private Af- fair" For the first time in her career lovely Jean Arthur becomes a sweater girl in 'The Impatient Years" Vera Shea is coast bound, she says, to wed Alan Cor don, the p. a.
 Con. Ham Fish asked the Ameri- can Legion to give him clean bill after 1t twice denounced him by resolution. They just published the findings-worse than the original chargesl Write for a free copy-to Americanism Committee, 17th Dis trict, American Legion, Dept of California, 912 Rowan Bldg. Lost An- geles (13), Calf. The brief pam phlet is almost as good as Under Cover! Cong. Clare Hoffman has never stopped barking because we carelessly heckled some guilli- bles who reelected & few obstruc- tionists. He wanted us court-mar- tiard, investigated, fired off the air, etc., for "vilifying all Americans" The other day critic Hoffman
 Gin CongresS) denounced Illinois voters (who voted against his fav- orites) by calling them "feebled- minded" He added: "In my dis trict Gin Michigan) we take care of such persons in inStitutionsw
 George Jessel and Gypsy Rose Lee, the book writers, have H'Yc0d gabbing because they are seeing each other nightly They are what? It. Wm. Bapst of the Marines and Lois Warner are happy happy, glub-glub Try this at Lum Fong'S: 2 oZ. gin, 3-4 OF. pine- apple juice, IA OF. curacao and dash of Mui Wwai Lui (Chinese hooch). This cocktail makes you all rhyme and no reason Mrs. Eric Hatch hastened back from Reno when she learned he was in the hosp. He's the novelist. She's the litree agent Capt. Bill Craw- lords book, Gore and Glory" will be released May 29th. Bills a bomber pilot hero Irene Dunne is due at the Waldorf Towers today. w. Pidgeon Wedzdee =. Kate Smiths having oggamints with the Internal RevenuerS about gettting paid Gin gifts of cameras, etc) for 1lcL BucoL SL1OtS. OA1CAC Od1IA W&4Ato Kate to pay 8 tax on 'em.
 Cngat's canary, Lima Romay, and groom Jack Adams are readying 8 vital statistic Lest the people forget dept: Savings last year were 38 billion $-that's almost as much
 as the total national income in 1882 Ex-Banker Richard Whit ney Is now very much involved in output for the war effort Mrs. ] Dick Smart has retained Jerry Geis- ] Ter (the Chaplin lawyer) for her counter divorce suit. Geisler is be- ing profiled by Life Remember ] Mary Nolan Omogene Wilson,, one ! of ziegfeld's prettiest blondes? She's | @ private nurse in H'wood Mar tin Gabel and Fwances Wobinson are Mooky and -Snazzling Ter rible excitement over at news paper. Its military expert did 8 Sunday article stressing point near Odessa where the Russians would have to prepare themselves for a strong German stand" The edi- tors were aghast when a copy-read- CT discovered the Russians had passed that point the day before I the experts article was Writtenl