The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
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 The Dock of Windsor and his Dookess will not be allowed to re- turn to England. He'd like being Ambassador to France or Governor of the Dominion. Nothin' doom. Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano's sweetheart is with her in Switzer- land. His last tag is Pucci. He got her out of Its<y into that country =. Doris Duke Cromwell, who tried to visit her British boy friend, was turned down by the War Dept, which refused to accredit Doris as war correspondent. She's in Rome now The current quip in Ger many: You can tell a high rank ing Nazi by how high in the moun- tains he has managed to get!" .. s. BIlingsley has quit the newly formed night club owners assn already! No like everything about the "set-up' All Pullman space to the Coast is frozen as of April 18th to 23rd. The situation is acute between April 1st and 18th. Reason: The SF Conf.
 Wire from Andre KOstelanetz: "We drive thorugh ice, snow, cold and rain and come to sign read ing: Entering Germany My wife leans out of jeep and spits on first foot of enemy soil. We come to thrc miles of the fighting front and 1t is good to see the Nazis digging in their own ruins after seeing their destruction in other lands. Most of the soldiers for whom Lily sings and play are on a AS hour pass and they go right back into the fight. They are the forward troops" ... (Ed. Note: Lily is Lily Pons.)
 It. Orrin Lehman, kin of the former Gov. of N. Y. dtemed Mon- oay as being wounded in action and that his condition is gravel, will live. Kinfolk hear that he was at his artillery assembly station when | enemy shrapnel hit him. He lost | one leg and may lose the other. Orrin is one of the handsomest lads | of them all The mag weekly | which soon attacks Miami is going | after the Miami landlords only. The | same mag has assigned Herbert | Asbury to do the story of the five personalities in Chicago. The five | giants who own newspapers there. No other American town has SO many gazetters with so many diff felent points of view The re- porter tried to get s. Billingsley to publicly announce at 11:55 Sunday | night that he was going to CO., operate with the Governments re- quest and close up the Stork at ! midnight. He got scared He | would have landed on every front page and then, of course, on his head.
 The cOlyum's old pal, Max Me fOOfsky, is now in the coat manu- featuring business. He's sufferer from insomnia, as who isn't? :. Anyhow, Max went to his doctor, who cOunseled counting sheep :. That week, Max returned to the mSdicO: II deed wot you sad!" Max reported. De foyst two days I slapt like baby. But lest night agen couldn't slipp!"
 "Why was that?" asked the doc tor
 Its like diss," said MefOOf. "The foySt night I not unleh cOnt'd da Shipp, but ulzO I shirred da vOOl- den vOve 1t into clawt. On da sacOnd night put da clawt on a table-I cut out da scots endt sant dem to da fectree! But lest night agcn deedn't slipp vun vink!' ..
 T don't understand, at all?" said the doc.
 How could I slipp??" wept Me- foofsky. Have I gott linings?"
 Is it true what the rumors say that Vera zorina and Balanchine got a melting very quietly and that he is going to wed an asst manag- ing editors daughter? Joe Fe- jer, who makes his violin sing, has turned Bradleys into click Tommy Dorseys crew is the big reason the 400" spot is doing so well Al Bernie, the mimic, is reported a groom in England Norman CorWin, the genius, and Tana di Gomez, who strums a git tar so delightfully."-, are steadying- now that her deere has arrived. John Gaede, also known as Henry Curtiss, formerly star performer for Joe McWilliams, is now writing editorials for Tucson paper. Curtiss Cor Gaere) was thor oushly unveiled in Under Cover" on pages 40, 85, 86 and POI Novelist Louis Bromfeild, whose best prediction a year ago was that we'd all have a food famine, has gotten oof'ly fat!
 When Donald Nelson was in China setting up the Chinese War PrOduc- tinv. ERnord tha CLi,nn~n Lo ula,. S..